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Produce => Edible Plants => Topic started by: vegging out on May 07, 2007, 21:28:17
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Hi all,I noticed today that two or three of my rocket earlies are flowering already,is this normal for this variety and is anybody else's spuds doing so?Thanks.. :)
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Can I jump in here too - first earlies Lady Chrystal no flowers - second earlies Majestic tons of buds ???
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My first earlies are flowering too.
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But my second earlies are flowering before my first earlies - confused as only ever grown first before ???
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noticed at the weekend that my rockets have flower buds too
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Hello everyone!
I'm a newbie to this forum and to growing veg. We don't actually have an allotment but have put in a small plot in our garden and a few pots on the patio. It's great to read the discussions and suggestions on the site, particularly helpful to me as a beginner to all of this.
I'm so relieved to hear that other people have got flower buds on their potatoes too - I saw the buds on mine yesterday and was worried that they were flowering too soon. My earlies are Maris Bard and I've also got some second earlies (Estima).
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welcome to the site, sguy, I think the early spring has brought everything on :)
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Thanks ;D
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My rockets are flowering too! Infact, I just harvested nearly 12lb from a container grown one at home :) Should be nice at tea time! I carefully removed the pot, took off some of the bigger spuds and then put the plants back in the pot and gave them a good water :) Hopefully I can keep doing that for a couple of weeks until the ones at my plot are ready :)
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that's so good - to have potatoes already. I know it must be possible, as they're on sale. But my plants aren't flowering yet - do you have to wait till they flower before you can eat the potatoes?
This is my first year for earlies. Normally i have pink fir apple and theyre really late. when can i eat them? I can't even remember what I planted, I know some arran pilot. apart from them I've forgotten.
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I didn't wait for the ones at home to flower.
BTW.. They tasted great!
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did you just have a look to see if they were big enough and then dig them up?
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Pretty much. I have them in a container so I tipped the container out (after watering so that the compost held firm) and picked off the biggest ones from around the edge (+ a couple from inside). When I had done that I simply put the whole lot back in the container, watered again to bed it back in and now I'm keeping my fingers crossed that all those tiny bean sized ones I saw get to be a bit bigger!
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When early potatoes flower it means that you can start harvesting them - happy eating all. My greenhouse ones have not yet started - I have checked. So I'm afraid its only broad beans for me.
Jitterbug
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We ate our first ever home-grown potatoes last night. Red Duke of York - absolutely delicious. We even took a photo of them we were so proud!
Grew them in a bucket in the greenhouse & we've got another 5 buckets on the go too, (some more RDoY & some Charlotte) one in the greenhouse & the others outside. I had the tiny baby ones with my salad at lunchtime - well, it was a shame for them to go to waste!
I did notice that they cooked extremely quickly so I don't know if that's the case with all home-grown or not.
Just can't wait for our next harvest now, but we're trying to ration ourselves. ;D
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My Red Duke of York have flower buds too!!
But I thought it would be too early to dig them up... maybe I'll try one at the weekend!!