first potatoes

[small]

OK, so just a few to have with salad, but I emptied out the first of my potato buckets this morning. I was a bit worried since I used last year's saved Charlotte, but they look lovely. Well we need something cheerful to be happening!

[small]

[Jeannine]

Oh Jealous, Charlottes are my favourite but I can't get them here.I did have some come over from the UK which I grew last year and had a nice bag for saving, but my daughter raided my fridge one day while I was out.I came back to a note saying she had taken the bag of potatoes but would replace then tomorrow..heart sinks to the floor.

This year while tidying out a bed my SIL found one potato in the bed with a shoot on it, it was were the Charlottes were. I planted it in the botton of a very large pot and kept topping up as it grew  till the pot was full, popped the pot in the greenhouse in February at the start, it is now in the sun and the plant is 2 feet high..Fingers crossed.

[Paulh]

"my daughter raided my fridge one day while I was out.I came back to a note saying she had taken the bag of potatoes but would replace then tomorrow..heart sinks to the floor."

The exemplar of love!

[Tee Gee]

Reminds me of a time when  I had picked a number of Tomatoes for a flower & Veg  show and I had left them on the kitchen worktop while I went out into the garden to select some more stuff for the show.

When I came back in my wife had washed them including removing the calyxes.

Needless to say I didn't enter the Tomato section of the show that year.

[InfraDig]

Having read Small's post, I decided I had to empty one tub of Swift potatoes, planted 26 Feb, in the unheated greenhouse,  three seeds. I got 17 and a half ounces, 496 grams of potatoes. Not what you would call a great return! I am happy though, new potatoes, 9th May! I will leave the rest a bit longer though!

Infradig

[JanG]

I've had just a very few - four small ones! - from Maris Bard in my polytunnel. They seem very reluctant to produce much and once broad beans, peas or mangetout start it's lovely to have a few new potatoes to go with them.
Note to self: next year plant a few earlier ones like Swift or Rocket which might make it for this earlier period.

[pumkinlover]

Well done with such early potatoes.
It will be a while yet for us I think.

[ACE]

I am not really supposed to eat them yet, but the temptation to have a couple of small ones will probably be too much when they come. I had already purchased the seed before I was diagnosed so I have planted them for the family. But you cannot beat fresh new minted potatoes.

[InfraDig]

I'm not sure that Swift are that tasty! I much prefer Charlotte. They are outside so won't be ready for a while. The Jazzy in the greenhouse don't look ready either.

[JanG]

I'm not sure that Swift are that tasty! I much prefer Charlotte. They are outside so won't be ready for a while. The Jazzy in the greenhouse don't look ready either.

I agree that Swift aren't by any means the tastiest but they are early and so good to have just a few to fill this gap. Not sure whether Rocket has a better flavour.
I'm guessing that Charlotte are three or four weeks later than either Swift or Rocket?

[saddad]

Have managed a pan full from volunteers coming through in the old brassica bed as we cleared it for the peas and beans. The very warm weather in April must have brought them on... none of any great size but as our planted spuds are just showing tops not to be sniffed at!