"0tterbot" wrote in message
"Farm1" please@askifyouwannaknow wrote in message

You mentioned that the spuds had been in for 3 months. IIRC,
Desiree
has about a 120 day to harvest period??????

i just had a google (as my books only say of potatoes in general
"2-3 months
maturing time") & one site says 95-100 days for desirees, so that
would be
right.

so it may be a bit early
to think of harvesting them.

this situation (or disease ;-) might put a natural end to keeping
them in,
though! they're all going yellow, curling up & dying (even some of
the
pontiacs now, which i put in shortly after the desirees, have
stopped
looking differently-diseased & look like they're going the exact
same way).
without any foliage, it's a bit pointless to keep them in much
longer, isn't
it? (i wasn't going to harvest them tomorrow or anything, but it
can't be
long now anyway. i just had lost track of when they went in & didn't
consider how close it must be to time).

If the tops are all dead then it's (sort of ) harvest time.

Pehraps it might be worth checking out
the days to harvest for the varieties and check you garden
notebook to
see when you did plant them to be surer.

i'm thrilled that you think so very highly of me that you think i'd
keep a
notebook. bg!

Snort! I thought everyone had at least one garden notebook! How else
do you keep notes on what works or when you put on white oil or
planted X tree or where you pasted your plant labels for that exotic
tree whose name you can never remember?

kylie (being organised really isn't my strong point!! i can't
emphasise that
enough!!!!)

I'll bet I can beat you hands down for being disorganised (I can lose
a shopping list between the kitchen and the car door) but I do keep up
my garden notebooks. I have 2 "notebooks' and lose one or the other
on a regular basis (that's how disorganised I am) but I can always
find at least one of them - that's where I keep my recipes for making
sprays of what works for what diseases etc. The other book that I
keep and never lose, is an "Any Year" diary and in that I write on the
appropriate date what year it is and what I've just planted and where
and what's in flower when (if I remember to do the flowering bit).