international Kidney in flower

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 ;D ;D ;D ;D Do you think I'd get in then Georgie?

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[Georgie]

Nah, your eyes are too close together.   ;D

G x

[Need a Leek]

Lose the fly on your nose and you may...Thanks...Hi G

Cheers
Tony

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No wonder I cant see straight, I always thought I made a great bee line to everwhere ;D ;D ;D

[5rod]

this thread is edible plant.not cat fighting .
tony i to am growing international kidneys and would love too know.
but if know one knows, maybe
  yourself or i should dig sume up.
what do you say .good infor is allways needed by most of us on
this site about growing veg.
b][/b] how about it tony
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[Melbourne12]

I am growing some International Kidneys "Jersey Royals" and it is the first time I have tried them, someone told me to harvest them whilst in flower as the skins will be flaky and if I were to harvest them after flowering the skins would be more firm, is this true?.

Cheers
Tony

The one time we grew them, the year before last, we dug the first ones when they had recently flowered.  They were the size of marbles!

Now I don't know if one can safely generalise from one experience, but we found that we had to leave them for several weeks before the potatoes developed to any sort of usable size.  Certainly when we did dig them, the skins were firm.

[sawfish]

Its funny that this post is now full of useless answers, the very thing that purpleheather complained about in the first place  ;D

OK back to the potato question now people!

[coznbob]

Same here, some flowering, some just stoppped,  dug a few up and got marble sized spuds will be leaving them in a bit longer. Hopefully all the rain will fatten them up a bit, flakey skins or not!

[5rod]

thanks for that coznbob.
will dig mine up in few weeks
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[Barnowl]

Need a Leak: why not pick a few at a time so that you can come back and give us a definitive answer and become the site's  International Kidney guru? Looks lioke the rest of us don't know the answer.

5Rod, I believe that International Kidneys are Jersey Royals in mainland clothing and I'm also pretty sure that Jersey Royals are not actually early but main potatoes picked early so that they are small. So I suppose you can leave them in the ground for some time (depending on where you stand on the flaky skin issue :) )

[Robert_Brenchley]

It's officially an early maincrop, but it's lited early on Jersey, and wherever else they import 'Jersey Royals' from.

[djbrenton]

From what little I know about them, when grown in Jersy they are on a slope and are covered with seaweed. I wonder if this affects the skins?

[Need a Leek]

I use the non dig method and being right on the coast I have rolled in some seaweed as well...All salt water washed off by the way, all I need now is a slope ;D another 12 tons of horse muck for one end of my plot next year then.

Cheers
Tony

[Robert_Brenchley]

There's not too much flat land in Jersey; I doubt whether the slope is deliberate.

[Mrs Ava]

Just wanted to add, if you leave them in for too long, whatever that may be, they become huge very very quickly.  Last year we started digging the row after a rootle around, finding the spuds, new pot size.  As the weeks wore on and the row became shorter and shorter, the pots got bigger and bigger.  In the end they were monsters which we were baking in their jackets.

[Hyacinth]

There's not too much flat land in Jersey; I doubt whether the slope is deliberate.

and I. for one, am past caring ::) ;D

Best laugh I've had since the Old King died, tho.....

NeedaL it's all down to you then..we expect a scientific trial, mind...not too sure atm what the science is, but give me time :)

Barnowl you wrote "5Rod, I believe that International Kidneys are Jersey Royals in mainland clothing and I'm also pretty sure that Jersey Royals are not actually early but main potatoes picked early so that they are small." Rang some far-distant bells, that...there was a radio4 talk some years ago that, I think, said something similar...

EJ......but were the skins flaky?? :P

[Mrs Ava]

Do you know lish...I can't remember!  Must have been all that mint and melted butter addling my brain.  I will let you know when I start digging this years crops.

[Hyacinth]

Do you know lish...I can't remember!  Must have been all that mint and melted butter addling my brain.  

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[Need a Leek]

this thread is edible plant.not cat fighting .
tony i to am growing international kidneys and would love too know.
but if know one knows, maybe
  yourself or i should dig sume up.
what do you say .good infor is allways needed by most of us on
this site about growing veg.
b][/b] how about it tony
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Good Idea 5 Rod  I am up for that in a few weeks time ;D.

Cheers
Tony

[tim]

I believe that there is a slot for this kind of niggling - it's certainly not International Kidneys!