You're missing the gorgeous early new potato crop..the best part of
growing your own. When the potato patch is still bright green and fresh,
but shows more than a dozen flowers, you can be pretty sure that
potatoes are forming. Find out if the tubers are ready by gently
scraping back the earth to have a look; don't dig up the plant! If they
are still only marble size, cover the tubers again; but check again soon
because the transition from marbles to eating size is very fast. Just
uncover enough tubers to pick for your meal,(which will perhaps mean
scraping around several plants) and leave the plants in the ground to
grow more.

My Arran Pilots were planted on April 19th, opened their first flowers
a week ago and had new potatoes the size of pigeon eggs when I looked
yesterday; first harvest should be this week.

Janet (Isle of Arran).

Thank you Janet. I've got some Arran Somethings - can't remember which
though.

You're right about freshly dug potatoes, it's why I wanted to grow them.
It's not just the flavour either, the sight of those beautiful, shining
tubers is glorious, like eggs, like pearls ...

Mary