Size of your spuds

[ruffmeister]

Hey guys was wondering what size of your ealry potatoes you have had this year with all the weird weather we've had.

We pulled one and was a monster, click here to see a picture of our Monster Spuds.

One specimin was 750 grams for a new potatoe, we haven't even seen a main crop that size this year, how has yours been, bigger smaller, stranger or didnt even grow spuds, i would like to know.

News from the plot this week also includes, harvesting runner beans, raspberries, and salds. With good growth seen on the sqaushes, sweetcorn and the leeks.

Regards
Lottieblogs

[ruffmeister]

[allaboutliverpool]

Yes, a similar story but unfortunately many lost to splitting.

Some split in the soil, but others burst on washing they were so tense. One root had 2.721Kg, not bad for earlies but 1/3 split but still ok to eat.

http://www.allaboutliverpool.com/allaboutallotments_Vegetables_potatoes.html

[Suzanne]

This was my first year of not growing my new potatoes in tubs - grew them in the gorund at the new lottie. All are what I would call bakers, so quite big, and they don't like to be boiled they break up. As we have blight I harvesting second earlies and early main crop now and these are also big. I am goig to dig up the few golden wonder I put in as a main crop this weekend.........I expect these ones I want o be large will be minute! ???

[debster]

i didnt have very many spuds per plant but all were bigger then i expected

[Rosyred]

My spuds did really well this year but missed the small new potatoes and got medium pots but still lovely in flavour.

[grotbag]

yep must admit all my earlies have been big this year

[Mrs Ava]

My International Kidney, which I was hoping to serve as lovely little oval mouthfuls of joy ended up being baked in their skins they were all so huge!

[Kepouros]

Early potatoes are meant to be eaten early.  If you leave them in the ground they bulk up rapidly, and many of them then become very coarse - Rocket is an example whose quality declines greatly as it gets larger.

For a regular supply of smallish new potatoes start lifting when the tubers are still of reasonable size, take off the ones you want, and carefully replant the plant.  Do this on a rainy day, don`t let the plant dry out, and 3 weeks later you can repeat the proceedure.

[Mrs Ava]

I didn't think I had left them in long, especially as, due to work, I planted them late!  The quality wasn't lost at all though, beautiful creamy spuds, easy to clean, white, undamaged, tender and sweet.  YUM!

[Tin Shed]

Yesterday my neighbour on the lottie commented that she had baked a new potato for the first time in her life because all the new potatoes are so big.

[cornykev]

I had a real mixture of sizes, some were the perfect new potato size, some were nice to cut into three bits for roasties and others were massive, much bigger than your average jacket spud.  ;D ;D ;D

[tim]

Big!

[Debs]

OoOeerr.....!!

Will go and dig some up NOW from pots in garden....
...back in a few moments :-\

[ruffmeister]

OoOeerr.....!!

Will go and dig some up NOW from pots in garden....
...back in a few moments :-\

and the results were ....

[Miss Fenella]

I lifted two Maris Piper plants today (we fancied a change) and this is what we got (which I was impressed with):