dug up a root today, fish and chips tonight yummy !
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71kww4gZt5g
Yes, just had some, firkled from under my Home Guard, leaving the plant to grow on thanks to a tip from on here, not wasted them on chips though! With salad and a dob of butter - heavenly.
I dug mine on Monday Jimbo, steamed with garden mint and lashins of butter, I won't be wasting my first newies on chips. :P
Yup, first on Tuesday. Steamed with salad. Yummy ;D
Quote from: jimtheworzel on May 27, 2011, 16:52:45
dug up a root today, fish and chips tonight yummy !
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71kww4gZt5g
Mmmmm, fish and chips with chips made from new potatoes <drool> Sounds delish, what time's dinner? :P
been eating this yrs spuds for a fortnight. ;)
had the 1st batch of red Duke of York the other night ;D
Quote from: tonybloke on May 28, 2011, 11:25:42
been eating this yrs spuds for a fortnight. ;)
Me too.
Variety: Rocket.... A bit knobbly, but delicious all the same. :)
Yes, a couple of weeks. Rocket and Charlotte from planters, and Rocket from the garden.
Yes - a firkle with Casablanca, planted mid-March.
But chips? Good God - what sacrilege!!
Eating since last Sunday - absolutely gorgeous. (Foremost)
And there is me just looking at the flowers starting to emerge.
Don't wait for flowers on earlies!!
I usually know mine are ready after the flowers start to emerge on earlies. ;D
Yes, Belle de Fontenay, but they are quite small. We have had no rain for the last 2 months...
I put my pre-chitted Pentland Javelins in my raised bed early 2nd april and the plants are approx 14 inches high but no flowers yet shall i wait for the flowers to emerge before picking?
thanks
Read my lips........ NO need!!
If, at the worst, you dig a whole root, take what's there - if - & replant.
Well, 8 weeks to crop is a bit fast but no harm in digging one plant up and see what you get.
Perhaps a small collection of nice salad potatoes for Bank Holiday tea?
I planted mine about the same time and am trying to be patient but I will be digging this week, ready or not ;D
Thank you Denby for YOUR informative reply......
Yes - looking at it again, 8 weeks is a bit shorter than mine! And 14" isn't much.
But the fact of not waiting for flowers remains.
And that's MY - helpful - reply!!
I find my Pentland Javelins do not produce many flowers, so I don't wait for flowers to form.
Have not had a look yet, will start digging mine when I have finished the previous lot, I think they were a variaty called 'Tesco', or was it 'Sainsburys'?
^^ ha ha, I am finishing off some Jersey Royals and then I will be digging ....
But it also depends on whether your plants took a hit from the frost....
I covered mine on a couple of frosty nights in May and the plants escaped mostly. But if you weren't so lucky and the plants are still recovering, wait a few more weeks.
Last year my earlies were frosted and the crop was reduced. Not too bad for me as I had 22 plants but one plant produced only one potato and several produced only a few spuds.
So be patient and wait if you got hit by the frost.
By the way - I hope it goes without saying that we're talking about one or two tubers from these plantings - NOT a bucketful?
And would it be better, petemac, if it had been worded " As mentioned in my last post"?
This is the state of play with 'earlies' here - and, since we last spoke, A flower!!
Been eating the red duke of york for three weeks, after firkling, now on to home guard, took up 3 home guard plants from the poly, enough to feed 6 people :)
Aha - the poly!!
yes, Tim, not pretty but a wonderful invention ;D
I've just emptied two tubs of rockets
I was going to wait until the weekend but I still have some Sarpo Mira to get in so I need the tubs
I will be having them for dinner tomorrow
;D
Quote from: tim on May 30, 2011, 15:47:35
By the way - I hope it goes without saying that we're talking about one or two tubers from these plantings - NOT a bucketful?
nope, getting plenty for a meal for 4 adults from 2 plants ( and we do eat plenty of spuds along with the asparagus)
What I meant, Tony, was that in suggesting that you could firkle long before due date, don't expect a full crop. One or two tubers make a treat for two oldies.
And, for those who lift too early, re-planting does work!
yes from what i class as my extra spuds the ones that were not dug last year somehow over looked and they are delicious
xx
I've been eating Swift for 2 weeks now and yesterday I cleared the rest of them and Rocket (the spud that is) too to make way for Aubergines, etc in the polytunnel.
The Swift have been really good - I planted them January 15th - very tasty, great texture and lots of them! Not eaten a Rocket yet - but a good yield too.
Walking among the spuds removing the flowers the temptation became to great, i don't usually take any up for a few weeks after the flowers have bloomed as i think you are robbing the plant but i succumbed to greed and dug up two roots and removed a mighty fine boiling, then dug them back in and covered them followed by a good watering to let the small spuds grow on.