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Produce => Edible Plants => Topic started by: debster on May 31, 2009, 15:19:11

Title: do all spuds flower?
Post by: debster on May 31, 2009, 15:19:11
might be a silly question but i dug up some stray ones from last year and from two plants got over 5lb of spuds and they are delicious but the plants never flowered
Title: Re: do all spuds flower?
Post by: Flighty on May 31, 2009, 15:22:40
Apparently not. My Swift earlies didn't that I started harvesting today.
Title: Re: do all spuds flower?
Post by: debster on May 31, 2009, 15:43:28
well flighty that is partly why i asked the question the first earlies i put in (cant remember the type) look to be dying back as if they are ready but have not even had the first sign of a flower, how did you know yours were ready?
Title: Re: do all spuds flower?
Post by: Flighty on May 31, 2009, 15:56:05
Debs I kept a note of when I put them in and waited ten weeks! I was also told that they don't flower and that when they started to die back they'd be ready. Sure enough that's what happened.
Title: Re: do all spuds flower?
Post by: debster on May 31, 2009, 16:09:27
ive just checked mine and they were planted eleven weeks ago and are starting to die back, time for a furtle me thinks  ;D
Title: Re: do all spuds flower?
Post by: Flighty on May 31, 2009, 16:10:41
Debs I reckon so, good luck!
Title: Re: do all spuds flower?
Post by: debster on May 31, 2009, 16:11:54
thanks  ;D just when i need the extra room too lol
Title: Re: do all spuds flower?
Post by: Digeroo on May 31, 2009, 18:03:00
I do just love this word furtle or firtle.  I have rooted around before.  But now I can furtle.  Wonderful.
Title: Re: do all spuds flower?
Post by: Flighty on May 31, 2009, 18:08:13
Digeroo there's firkle as well! All fun words!
Title: Re: do all spuds flower?
Post by: shirlton on May 31, 2009, 19:50:41
I'm all fer firkling
Title: Re: do all spuds flower?
Post by: cornykev on June 01, 2009, 20:10:03
I firkled today.     :P    ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: do all spuds flower?
Post by: debster on June 02, 2009, 15:21:30
ooh folks i had a furtle, a firtle, a furkle and firkle, found me some lovely spuds yum yum will dig some of the others later on