Came on here a short while back asking about flowers on potatoes, 'I can't see any, do they have to flower to produce the spuds underground?'

Well you replied, I waited and ..... they are flowering like mad :-)

3 spuds in a couple of bottomless pots, (big pots).

Next question for all of you learned gardeners.

"Does the size and quantity of top growth, reflect the crop underground, because the tops are nearly four feet high and dense?"

Many thanks in anticipation.

Mike on the wet South East Coast of the Isle of Wight, fine for the Runner Beans and Spuds :-)

On Monday, July 13, 2015 at 9:25:06 AM UTC+1, mike crowe wrote:
Came on here a short while back asking about flowers on potatoes, 'I
can't see any, do they have to flower to produce the spuds
underground?'

Well you replied, I waited and ..... they are flowering like mad :-)

3 spuds in a couple of bottomless pots, (big pots).

Next question for all of you learned gardeners.

"Does the size and quantity of top growth, reflect the crop underground,
because the tops are nearly four feet high and dense?"

Many thanks in anticipation.

Mike on the wet South East Coast of the Isle of Wight, fine for the
Runner Beans and Spuds :-)




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mike crowe

Well from the spud in one pot, 5lb 14oz + three which were attacked and rotten and from the pot with 2 spuds in, 16lb 13oz. I guess that the tops were reflective to what was going on underground.

Don't think that's too bad do you?
..

"mike crowe" wrote ...


Came on here a short while back asking about flowers on potatoes, 'I
can't see any, do they have to flower to produce the spuds
underground?'

Well you replied, I waited and ..... they are flowering like mad :-)

3 spuds in a couple of bottomless pots, (big pots).

Next question for all of you learned gardeners.

"Does the size and quantity of top growth, reflect the crop underground,
because the tops are nearly four feet high and dense?"

Many thanks in anticipation.

Mike on the wet South East Coast of the Isle of Wight, fine for the
Runner Beans and Spuds :-)

The old gardeners I learnt my allotment growing from always said it was the
thickness of the hulm (stem) just above the ground that was key to the size
of the crop.
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Regards. Bob Hobden.
Posted to this Newsgroup from the W of London, UK

Very thick. Thicker than my thumb. Over 22 lb from 3 potatoes!!

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