The haulm was on the average only 6 to 8 inches high, and no potatoes were as yet formed; but in most cases the old seed potato had not yet gone rotten, so we used to pick these out and replant the haulm.
"The Escaping Club"
A. J. Evans
Mr. Swipes recommended dead pea-haulm, with the sticks left in it to ensure a draught.
"Springhaven A Tale of the Great War"
R. D. Blackmore
The crop of pease was wholly destroyed, so that several farmers pretty early gave up all hopes on that head, and cut the green haulm as fodder for the cattle, then perishing for want of food in that dry and burning summer.
"The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. V. (of 12)"
Edmund Burke