Hello, can anyone tell me how and when i will know when my Rocket potatoes are ready for harvest without digging up and having a look. They have about a foot and a half of nice green growth and i have just noticed some flower buds. Should i take these off so that the energy stays in the roots and doesn't go into making seeds.
any advice would be appreciated.
Thank you.
Alit ;)
The only fool proof way to know is have a furtle/grope around the soil to see the size of the tubers. I start to look at around 80 days for first earlies.
Removing the flowers is recommended by some, mainly for main crops not earlies, and I have tried it but not seen any noticeable difference in yield.
Jerry
ok, thank you i'll have a look. 80 days is first week in June. Thank you for advice. I will write it in my lottie book
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I knew there had to be a technical term for grubbing around patootie tubers jerry!
Furtle furtle :D
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