Despite this;

[Tee Gee]

I picked these this morning



I will let them dry off a bit then I will bag them up;

[Tee Gee]

[shirlton]

Nice harvest there

[BarriedaleNick]

Nice!
Which variety??

[gaz2000]

my desiree gave good results despite the contaminated manure that was used

[Tee Gee]

They are Kestrel!

I planted out 100 tubers and I would say there is about 3 hundredweight there, a pretty good return I think despite the weedkiler problem.

Will lift my Fir Apple tomorrow weather permitting, along with the last of my earlies.

That will free up a couple of beds  to 'winter dug'

[chriscross1966]

I was quite chuffed with my fir apples this year... last year I think I lifted them too early, this year there are some decent sized insane looking spuds in there.... they're easily my favourite for flavour and they store like stones .... which sort of makes up for their ridiculous shapes ....my (at the time) 3yr old niece took one look at a pile of them I had taken to my brothers place and asked "Uncle Chris.....Why have you grown alien potatoes?".... this year she got very excited about the blue-fleshed adn red fleshed potatoes..... especially whern I explained that she'd be able to have pink or purple mash



12 tubers IIRC worth of PFA....

chrisc

[saddad]

Pink Fir are a late main... daylength sensitive and don't start bulking up until the nights draw in. Best to leave them as late as possible before digging out. So yes you probably got them up too soon last year...  :)

[1066]

I think I managed to do the reverse and dug mine too early this year, but at the right time last year  ::) Oh well, plenty for the 2 of us  :)

[Jayb]

Well done they look fantastic, super to have such a crop despite the problems. Makes it so much more worthwhile  ;D

[chriscross1966]

Pink Fir are a late main... daylength sensitive and don't start bulking up until the nights draw in. Best to leave them as late as possible before digging out. So yes you probably got them up too soon last year...  :)

Back in 1850 when they said "late main" it meant something :D... My other Victorian late mains (Congo) are still looking cheerful in their pots and as a lot of the tomatoes will be getting cleared out of the polytunnel this weekend I'll move them in there, it'll be nearly a month before I need to get the tunnel down to put the greenhouse up , it'll be very interesting to see how they've done cos I rgew them from microtubers started in pots in the greenhouse at the folks place before I moved... and that was back in March......

chrisc