Harvesting of irish potatoes

• Potatoes are harvested after 100-120 days depending on planted varieties;
• When potatoes are ready to be harvested, their leaves become yellowish and vines dry up and fall.
• Before potatoes are harvested, the farmer has to dehaulm them.

• Vines are carefully uprooted so as to leave the potatoes in the soil and enable their skin to be strong enough. Those potatoes are harvested after 2 to 3 weeks,
• Harvest potatoes when the weather is good,
• Potato harvesting is done by hands when the soil is soft or a hoe but it is carefully used so as avoid to wound the potatoes. Harvest can also be done using an appropriate machinery,
• Avoid wounding potatoes while harvesting and remove all of them from the field;
• Remove diseased or infected potatoes from the yield.

Potatoes which remain in the field can host pests and diseases in the next farming season in case they are not killed by the weather.