We had our first new pots yesterday - called swift - delicious.

Alan
North of Portsmouth
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On Jun 8, 6:42 pm, "Alan Holmes" wrote:
A neighbour was admiring my early potatoes today and we were discussing
when
to crop them, I said I would just dig down to see what was there, he
made a
comment about the tops dying off to show the potatoes were ready.

Should one wait until the tops die, before trying to recover the crop?

We don't Alan, we have been eating our earlies and they are lovely.


We lifted our first yesterday and they look good. Except the one I stabbed
with the fork of course.

Steve