Hi all its my first time on this forum and I hope you can help
Got my allotment late last year and so this is my first crop of spuds. I put 2 lots of earlies and 2 lots of main crop in but they look just the same size, when do i lift my earlies.
Thanks
Martin
normally after flowering,but you can always have a grope around em see wot they feel like
what variatys did you grow?
Normaly as grotbag says they usualy flower then the leaves look like someone has laided on them. Then there ready.
Cambourne7
Some varieties don't flower so it's probably as well to have a feel and see what's there.According to Joy Larkcom:
very early earlies - 75 days
first earlies - 90 days
second earlies =110 days
early to late maincrop = 135-160 days
from planting to lifting that is.
I'm down in Cornwall oggy and my earlies came out 3 weeks ago. They are now being prepared for the freezer wedgies, garlic mash and chips. Afew will be kept to eat as and when. I dont like to leave spuds in the ground too long they only get attacked by slugs n bugs.
I've tried 3 times to get my word in.......
Yes - grope!! Newies need to be small & waxy, not big & blousy.
Most of ours have been eaten.
Mains can stay until the haulms die back.
Hi Cambourne7
the earlies were arran pilot and pentland javelin, Main crop were maris piper and can,t remember the last one.
Hi
I would try pulling a Pentland Javelin and see what you have :)
I dont have the ability to store potatoes so i just pull a few plants as i need spuds.
Yum
cambourne7
i agree with Tim get them out of there. i took my earlies up today and they are big and blousy
Quote from: gruesome on July 01, 2007, 20:12:34
IThey are now being prepared for the freezer wedgies, garlic mash and chips.
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do you cook your spuds before freezing them gruesome? your wedgies i mean?
Gawwwd... I must get the rest of mine up then - if i can find them that is amongst the weeds... but there are only so many 3 of us can eat!