Impatient but glad..

[adamhill100]

Although I promised to give my Potatoes another week before I started to dig them.. I gave into temptation and ended up digging 4 plants to use for sunday dinner...Is my first real taste of my labours and what a difference in taste!  Am I ever going to be able to eat Potatoes bought from a supermarket again?  

[adamhill100]

[tim]

Had they not been nice, it would not necessarily have been your fault. We have ditched most of a row of Red Duke of York as being sub-standard. = Tim

[adamhill100]

Thats a real shame!   I must say that I was slightly dissapointed with the amount of Potatoes for each plant... Not really sure what I expected.!  The taste did make up for it though.

[derbex]

Tim, I must admit that I have been dissapointed with our Red Duke of York. They look stunning but they don't seem to cook so well, I think they'll only be good for mash really. The tops have gone over as well, I don't think that they really came back after the wind the other week. Are they generally a tasty potato? I hope so as I have a late crop coming along in pots.

The Nicola are much better, they are an improvement on the shop bought.

Adam, how many are you feeding? 1 plant is sufficient for 3 of us.

Jeremy

[aquilegia]

My Red DoY (from Tim  :-*) were delicious. The tastiest potatoes I have ever eaten (my first ever homegrown ones). All 3onces of them, that is!

[tim]

DB - yes - &, like so many reds, pest resistant. But NOT blight resistant!! Forgot to repeat that we had already taken the haulms off the RDY because of early blight. Like 2 June!! = Tim

[adamhill100]

Jeremy,

I would say that one plant is not really enough for 2 people...Although I was told to wait until the flowers have died until I dig them. So maybe a week or so will see a larger tuber..
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[Mrs Ava]

Our RDoY are a bit piddly, so I stopped digging them and started on the Catriona, now they are a good cropper and mightly tasty!  Some did go a bit flourery in boiling, but the majority stayed firm and creamy and there was more than enough for 4 of us from one plant!  Guess I should see what the RDoY are doing - they are all still growing well, even though I haven't watered at all!

[derbex]

I haven't had any flowers off my RDoY, just buds, which have been there time enough for the other varieties to bud and flower.

I dug my first ones too early and was dissappointed with the quantitiy, waited a few weeks and there are lots now. I planted at the end of March (probably  ???) and have only been digging the last 3 weeks or so.

Jeremy

[tim]

Flowers??
They really don't seem to tell you anything about earlies. If you look back on my 'what do you expect' thing, there was hardly a flower in sight.

What I want to know is - how do the things grow at all when the soil is like this a spit down?? We should really be more amazed that we get anything? = Tim

[aquilegia]

Tim - think yourself lucky - mine is worse than that from the top. That's why I'm so very grateful for Mr Aqui and his strong digging arms!

[tim]

Didn't say what I meant - that is the top lot!!

But, since some say that they get moisture from a spit down, I checked.
Just like this lot. Except for one end where it is solid yellow clay. = Tim.

[Multiveg]

My RDoY went to my mother's - didn't get a chance to taste, but think she was happy with them.
Finished all the first earlies now. Going to wait a week or so before starting on the second earlies.

[tim]

Don't they go quickly?? = Tim

[feet of clay]

My first earlies have all been eaten - delicious.  I generously gave a goodly amount to son and wife.  His wife was amazed that I could pull spuds up! Also surprised that they were dirty. She's from Seoul (Korea) and is not a country girl!  She came round yesterday and dug up her own dinner - probably amazing her relatives with the story!!!  Apparently, some Koreans believe that spuds grow on trees.

[adamhill100]

Ha ha... I wonder how many kids nowadays actually know where most Veg come from.!  I am sure my kids think meat is grown in Cellophane Wrap.

[gavin]

Chuckle - try some of the housing estates in Leeds!

Walking down the road with a barrowload of new potatoes - and had a furious argument with neighbours' kids.  They would NOT believe that I'd dug the potatoes out of the ground.

My one mistake - making them taste some of the other veg in the barrow-load.  For months afterwards, they'd hang around on a Sunday afternoon, and "hijack" whatever else I was bringing home!

All best - Gavin

[Mrs Ava]

I dug about 7 plants of each and this is what I turned out.


Shan't bother with RDoY next year - very low yeild compared to the catriona next to it, and the Pentland Javelin, well, I would say almost 4 times as many as that whole tray in a similar area !

[Justy]

all of my seed potatoes (about 5 varieties in all) got mixed up by my son so I just chucked them into the ground.  I have no idea what are earlies or mains etc.  but I have now started to dig them up working down the rows and so far they are gorgeous although I only get one meal from each plant.

Does anyone know if this is a problem - can mains be eaten as new potatoes?  Storing is not going to be a problem as I only have 3 rows so they will all be eaten long before the winter!

[ruud]

Hi everyone,got my catrionas out of the soil and they look great,have 25 kg so that must be enough for the moment.Now i have towait for my arran victory,pink fir and violett noir.I cant wait till they are ready especially violett noir that is a dark pink almost black potato and strange enough the inside of the potato is also pinkish,must be a strange side on your plate.