First earlies

[sunflower]

New to this growing veg lark so not sure if i should lift my earlies they are in bags and havnt got flowers out yet although they are there in bud. My main crop already have flowers on so not sure.

[sunflower]

[antipodes]

When did you plant them?

[sunflower]

25th march

[cornykev]

In the right conditions they normally take about 13 weeks, I planted mine a week before you and have been eating them for about 2 /3 weeks.  ;D

[Flighty]

Go on have a firkle (or furtle if you prefer) ...you know you want to!  :)

And if you're unsure what it means...it's having a gentle feel around in the soil to hopefully find some potatoes.

[sunflower]

Might empty a bag tomorrow then and see whats inside  :)

[cornykev]

I've just come back from the lottie and have dug up a plant of Charlotte.
Sunflower what kind of bags are they, can you cut a hole, like a flap to check if their ready and tape the flap back if there not quite there yet.  ???

[sunflower]

No not really, cheap ones from a shop called the works.  The two varities are Rocket and Sharpes Express.

[chriscross1966]

Rockets will be long since ready, they're the drag racers of the spud world....They might have gone past it a bit, have a habit of getting enormous and going hollow and not tasting of anything much when they're big.... quite a lot of us grow them but purely as ultra-first erllies... in pots in the greenhouse planted jan/feb for spuds in may/june....

[caroline7758]

I dug my first Rocket at the weekend- still small and tasty. I planted them on Good Friday or thereabouts- can't remember what date that was.

[pumkinlover]

Firkled me first Charlottes out today, still got some good Sarpo's from last year!

[kt.]

I have just dug my first few Winston today.  Decent size.  First impressions seem positive.... the taste test tomorrow

[chriscross1966]

Having got some greenish Lady Chrystls in a pack from Lidl (they were cheap, I was knackered) I've put them on a north-facing windowsill to chit ... adn there are some first signs of chits showing.... so they'll be a late planted opt experiment for somenew spuds come Christmas ...