Topic: Hooked for life on growing own potatoes.

[luckystar]

Can't exaggerate how much our family enjoyed first ever home grown potatoes!!! :P :P :P  ;D

Can I still plant potatoes to harvest in winter?! Thanks.

[Curryandchips]

Looks like you are definitely a convert ...  :)

[tomatoada]

What sort did you grow please?  Disappointed in mine.  No taste and break up easily when cooking.

[Grant]

You can obtain Late Season Spuds from Dobies 0870 112 3625 or
www.dobies.co.uk
Alternative, keep some of the ones you dig up, put them in an old biscuit tin, bury the tin on the plot, put a marker stick in and dig them up for Christmas.

[luckystar]

 ;D Actually I just planted our left-over supermarket organic potatoes!

Earthed them up really well. Didn't even know that you're meant to water between rows and not on the leaves. Beginner's luck?!!! Really, really pleased with the results flavor wise. So much fun to harvest, like digging for buried treasure! ;) ;D

Thanks, will look out for those late seed potatoes. I imagine that they should fare even better!

[triffid]

Poor Maggie,

Actually a lot of folk here in the Desert Zone have been saying their spuds aren't as well-behaved in the pot as they were last year, so the dry weather's probably a factor. But in some cases it's at least partly because early types are best eaten fresh -- they do go more floury in store, which makes them more likely to break up.

What variety were yours?

[saddad]

Probably Charlotte if left over early season organics...
Check a publication by Alan Romans for tuber quality, I prefer waxy spuds as they are less likely to break up on boiling, even my Epicure are breaking up probably because it has been so dry...

You could always steam them!

See you at Potato day in feb then... where you can buy by the tuber and try lots of different varieties, over 100 this alst year.
 ;D