"Alan wrote in message
The green tops are huge, I can't remember ever seeing green tops
so big, but what can I expect of the potatoes themselves, does the
height of the greenery imply that the potatoes are going to be a
good crop as well.

No, it's not the size of the tops but the thickness of the stems as they
leave the soil. At least that's what old Bill used to say. :-)

And, when is the earliest that I can start scraping away at the soil to
pick a few earlies, I don't want to dig them up as that always results
in losing some.

Approx. 12 weeks from planting.

--
Bob

www.pooleygreengrowers.org.uk/ about an Allotment site in
Runnymede fighting for it's existence.