"Baz" wrote ...

....are not very good for us on the allotment.
They have been regularly watered and manure was dug in prior to sowing.
Four types, Cara, Maris Piper, King Edward and Golden Wonder.
All have the haulms flopping over, some are black. To me that means they
are ready to harvest.
In the garden at home they are still thriving with rich haulms. Sowed at
the same time, well, same day.

We have eaten all of the earlies, and it was a very large sowing.


Looks good so far here. Lifted all the second early Kestral last on Saturday
as they had died back, good crop of nice tubers although a lot of green
ones, for some strange reason they seem to have grown very near the soil
surface. On the maincrop hulms I notice the Rooster and Valour are beginning
to yellow but the two Sarpo varieties show no sign of stopping growing,
--
Regards. Bob Hobden.
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