Originally Posted by Bob Hobden

"mike crowe" wrote ...


Came on here a short while back asking about flowers on potatoes, 'I
can't see any, do they have to flower to produce the spuds
underground?'

Well you replied, I waited and ..... they are flowering like mad :-)

3 spuds in a couple of bottomless pots, (big pots).

Next question for all of you learned gardeners.

"Does the size and quantity of top growth, reflect the crop underground,
because the tops are nearly four feet high and dense?"

Many thanks in anticipation.

Mike on the wet South East Coast of the Isle of Wight, fine for the
Runner Beans and Spuds :-)

The old gardeners I learnt my allotment growing from always said it was the
thickness of the hulm (stem) just above the ground that was key to the size
of the crop.
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Regards. Bob Hobden.
Posted to this Newsgroup from the W of London, UK