Hi all,I noticed today that two or three of my rocket earlies are flowering already,is this normal for this variety and is anybody else's spuds doing so?Thanks.. :)
Can I jump in here too - first earlies Lady Chrystal no flowers - second earlies Majestic tons of buds ???
My first earlies are flowering too.
But my second earlies are flowering before my first earlies - confused as only ever grown first before ???
noticed at the weekend that my rockets have flower buds too
Hello everyone!
I'm a newbie to this forum and to growing veg. We don't actually have an allotment but have put in a small plot in our garden and a few pots on the patio. It's great to read the discussions and suggestions on the site, particularly helpful to me as a beginner to all of this.
I'm so relieved to hear that other people have got flower buds on their potatoes too - I saw the buds on mine yesterday and was worried that they were flowering too soon. My earlies are Maris Bard and I've also got some second earlies (Estima).
welcome to the site, sguy, I think the early spring has brought everything on :)
Thanks ;D
My rockets are flowering too! Infact, I just harvested nearly 12lb from a container grown one at home :) Should be nice at tea time! I carefully removed the pot, took off some of the bigger spuds and then put the plants back in the pot and gave them a good water :) Hopefully I can keep doing that for a couple of weeks until the ones at my plot are ready :)
that's so good - to have potatoes already. I know it must be possible, as they're on sale. But my plants aren't flowering yet - do you have to wait till they flower before you can eat the potatoes?
This is my first year for earlies. Normally i have pink fir apple and theyre really late. when can i eat them? I can't even remember what I planted, I know some arran pilot. apart from them I've forgotten.
I didn't wait for the ones at home to flower.
BTW.. They tasted great!
did you just have a look to see if they were big enough and then dig them up?
Pretty much. I have them in a container so I tipped the container out (after watering so that the compost held firm) and picked off the biggest ones from around the edge (+ a couple from inside). When I had done that I simply put the whole lot back in the container, watered again to bed it back in and now I'm keeping my fingers crossed that all those tiny bean sized ones I saw get to be a bit bigger!
When early potatoes flower it means that you can start harvesting them - happy eating all. My greenhouse ones have not yet started - I have checked. So I'm afraid its only broad beans for me.
Jitterbug
We ate our first ever home-grown potatoes last night. Red Duke of York - absolutely delicious. We even took a photo of them we were so proud!
Grew them in a bucket in the greenhouse & we've got another 5 buckets on the go too, (some more RDoY & some Charlotte) one in the greenhouse & the others outside. I had the tiny baby ones with my salad at lunchtime - well, it was a shame for them to go to waste!
I did notice that they cooked extremely quickly so I don't know if that's the case with all home-grown or not.
Just can't wait for our next harvest now, but we're trying to ration ourselves. ;D
My Red Duke of York have flower buds too!!
But I thought it would be too early to dig them up... maybe I'll try one at the weekend!!