Topic: Potatoes again.

[gilgamesh]

I've got a batch of earlies that I was given to feed to the hens, but they've gone green so I can't use them. Has anyone tried growing late earlies, if you see what I mean? Perhaps using the tomato buckets when they've finished cropping, so that they can go in the greenhouse?

[derbex]

Gilgamesh,

I haven't tried it but am planning to -according to my book I should be sowing them now. These are RDoY that have been sitting chitting since there bretheren were planted 3 months ago.

Jeremy

[philcooper]

They're normally called second croppers and will produce new potatoes for Christmas if planted in August and then kept out of the frosts.

Planting earlier will produce earlier crops

Phil