Hello all
When would you think the best time to crop Pink Fir Apple potatoes is? Mine look lovely and are just starting to flower. I have had advice to leave the tops to yellow and die back but I am not sure?
I am concerned re slugs if left in too long.
Thanks
Mike
I always seem to be harvesting them from September onwards and sometimes right through the winter. There is some slug damage then and the odd mushy potato, but they seem to go on forever!
I grew Pink Fir Apples last year and the slugs didn't touch them so maybe they are resistant to slug damage. ;D I harvested mine when the tops began to die down in August & September but I also couldn't resist going in with a small trowel to dig up a few early ones without disturbing the roots. ::)
I dug up a clump of volunteer pink fur apples last Friday, and altho they were a good size, they weren't as big and knobbly as I know they can be. Mine will stay put until mid September. Of all the spuds I grow, I grow PFA every year, and the slugs have never bothered them. PFA are great storers and we were still eating stored PFA in early spring.
How did you store them E-J?
Boring repeat - Sep-Oct - paper or hessian sacks - but off the floor against mice - so good - wait for them!!
Don't forget that you can cook first & then peel?
I stored mine in polystyrene boxes covered with old duvets. I had no problems and it was February when we ate the last ones. ;D
Sorry - I had assumed no frost problems.
Brown paper sacks SS. In the garage, then when they were all I had left, in the kitchen. The only spud that didn't got soft or start to chit!
I should have said 'excuse me, Emma' - sorry!
I have a lot of volunteers this year, I am leaving the remaining plants in the hope of getting some decent PFA as I hadn't bought any this year. Still the best for chips in my opinion ...
Mine went VERY smelly - dark patches - went mushy - maybe it was blight
hope that you have better luck
Store potatoes very successfully in cardboard boxes from supermarket.