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When can you start digging potatoes?
Some have flowers on and I don't know whether that is a sign! Alan |
When can you start digging potatoes?
alan.holmes wrote:
Some have flowers on and I don't know whether that is a sign! Alan I've started digging mine. Try lifting a root. See if they are big enough to eat. I will continue digging and eating mine now as earlies right until they have died off in Autumn and full grown to full size. -- David in Normandy. To e-mail you must include the password FROG on the subject line, or it will be automatically deleted by a filter and not reach my inbox. |
When can you start digging potatoes?
In message , David in Normandy
writes alan.holmes wrote: Some have flowers on and I don't know whether that is a sign! Alan I've started digging mine. Try lifting a root. See if they are big enough to eat. I will continue digging and eating mine now as earlies right until they have died off in Autumn and full grown to full size. Oh. I think mine are main crop but thought you had to wait until they had finished flowering? I may be wrong and can't remember where the info came from. -- June Hughes |
When can you start digging potatoes?
"alan.holmes" wrote ... Some have flowers on and I don't know whether that is a sign! 10 to 12 weeks for new ones, but as David says, suck it and see. -- Regards Bob Hobden just W. of London |
When can you start digging potatoes?
June Hughes wrote:
Oh. I think mine are main crop but thought you had to wait until they had finished flowering? I may be wrong and can't remember where the info came from. I've heard that too, but take the view that if they are big enough to eat then do so; cheaper than buying new potatoes. I suppose it depends on how many you've planted as to whether you can "waste" a few by digging them up before they are full size. I've got more than 300 plants so I can dig as soon as possible. The biggest chore is digging them up, especially if the ground bakes hard, it has a lot of clay in it. I probably won't get around to lifting the last of them until the tops have completely died off. Trouble then is finding where to dig without impaling some. -- David in Normandy. To e-mail you must include the password FROG on the subject line, or it will be automatically deleted by a filter and not reach my inbox. |
When can you start digging potatoes?
In message , David in Normandy
writes June Hughes wrote: Oh. I think mine are main crop but thought you had to wait until they had finished flowering? I may be wrong and can't remember where the info came from. I've heard that too, but take the view that if they are big enough to eat then do so; cheaper than buying new potatoes. I suppose it depends on how many you've planted as to whether you can "waste" a few by digging them up before they are full size. I've got more than 300 plants so I can dig as soon as possible. The biggest chore is digging them up, especially if the ground bakes hard, it has a lot of clay in it. I probably won't get around to lifting the last of them until the tops have completely died off. Trouble then is finding where to dig without impaling some. In my usual wimpish way, I have planted mine in buckets and one large container about a metre high, so shall wait for a little while. The plants extend about 2 feet above the edge of the buckets now, so there should be plenty of potatoes when they are ready - I hope. -- June Hughes |
When can you start digging potatoes?
June Hughes wrote:
In message , David in Normandy writes June Hughes wrote: Oh. I think mine are main crop but thought you had to wait until they had finished flowering? I may be wrong and can't remember where the info came from. I've heard that too, but take the view that if they are big enough to eat then do so; cheaper than buying new potatoes. I suppose it depends on how many you've planted as to whether you can "waste" a few by digging them up before they are full size. I've got more than 300 plants so I can dig as soon as possible. The biggest chore is digging them up, especially if the ground bakes hard, it has a lot of clay in it. I probably won't get around to lifting the last of them until the tops have completely died off. Trouble then is finding where to dig without impaling some. In my usual wimpish way, I have planted mine in buckets and one large container about a metre high, so shall wait for a little while. The plants extend about 2 feet above the edge of the buckets now, so there should be plenty of potatoes when they are ready - I hope. I've often wondered about that method, won't the largest spuds be at the bottom of the tub? If so that would make piecemeal harvesting vexing. -- Please reply to group,emails to designated address are never read. |
When can you start digging potatoes?
In message , Broadback
writes June Hughes wrote: In message , David in Normandy writes June Hughes wrote: Oh. I think mine are main crop but thought you had to wait until they had finished flowering? I may be wrong and can't remember where the info came from. I've heard that too, but take the view that if they are big enough to eat then do so; cheaper than buying new potatoes. I suppose it depends on how many you've planted as to whether you can "waste" a few by digging them up before they are full size. I've got more than 300 plants so I can dig as soon as possible. The biggest chore is digging them up, especially if the ground bakes hard, it has a lot of clay in it. I probably won't get around to lifting the last of them until the tops have completely died off. Trouble then is finding where to dig without impaling some. In my usual wimpish way, I have planted mine in buckets and one large container about a metre high, so shall wait for a little while. The plants extend about 2 feet above the edge of the buckets now, so there should be plenty of potatoes when they are ready - I hope. I've often wondered about that method, won't the largest spuds be at the bottom of the tub? If so that would make piecemeal harvesting vexing. I haven't tried it before but one of the bins I have has round sliding covers very near the bottom, on the sides, so theoretically I can dig out potatoes from the bottom. I shall let you know how it goes when the time comes:) The black rubber buckets won't be so easy. -- June Hughes |
When can you start digging potatoes?
In message , alan.holmes
writes Some have flowers on and I don't know whether that is a sign! Alan My potatoes were developing brown spots on the leaves, followed by shrivelling leaves, so I lifted the block and got what I thought was a decent crop (7.5kg). On the other hand, there were early started first earlies. -- Stewart Robert Hinsley |
When can you start digging potatoes?
On 12 June, 16:22, "Bob Hobden" wrote:
"alan.holmes" wrote ... Some have flowers on and I don't know whether that is a sign! 10 to 12 weeks for new ones, but as David says, suck it and see. After the flowrs have died back was the old kitchen garden method, but that got you large 'main crop' tubers, not 'new potatoes'. If the soil is loose enough, just have a look at one - if it has nothing worthwile underneath you might be able to heel it back in, even. But I doubt that... |
When can you start digging potatoes?
In article , David in Normandy
writes June Hughes wrote: Oh. I think mine are main crop but thought you had to wait until they had finished flowering? I may be wrong and can't remember where the info came from. I've heard that too, but take the view that if they are big enough to eat then do so; cheaper than buying new potatoes. I suppose it depends on how many you've planted as to whether you can "waste" a few by digging them up before they are full size. I've got more than 300 plants so I can dig as soon as possible. The biggest chore is digging them up, especially if the ground bakes hard, it has a lot of clay in it. I probably won't get around to lifting the last of them until the tops have completely died off. Trouble then is finding where to dig without impaling some. Trouble is, in the last few years, this area at any rate, has suffered blight, so presumably the quicker you can grow and eat the potatoes the less chance you have of losing them!! -- Janet Tweedy Dalmatian Telegraph http://www.lancedal.demon.co.uk |
When can you start digging potatoes?
"Stewart Robert Hinsley" wrote in message In message alan.holmes writes Some have flowers on and I don't know whether that is a sign! Alan My potatoes were developing brown spots on the leaves, followed by shrivelling leaves, so I lifted the block and got what I thought was a decent crop (7.5kg). On the other hand, there were early started first earlies. Lifted two of my earlies yesterday on the allotment. Bit disappointing : total of about 20 pots at 1" diameter. Local farmer said that the dry spell in May didn't help. .. |
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When can you start digging potatoes?
In message , coeur
writes alan.holmes;850670 Wrote: Some have flowers on and I don't know whether that is a sign! Alan Incorrect - wait 2 weeks approx AFTER top groth (hulm) wilts to allow tubers to set and the skins harden slightly. I believe the word is haulm .... i.e. the thing that wilts. -- Gopher .... I know my place! |
When can you start digging potatoes?
In message , Gopher
writes In message , coeur writes wait 2 weeks approx AFTER top groth (hulm) wilts to allow tubers to set and the skins harden slightly. I believe the word is haulm .... i.e. the thing that wilts. I'm struggling with "groth". Gardeners' Broth? :) -- Gordon H Remove "invalid" to reply |
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