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Produce => Edible Plants => Topic started by: RenishawPhil on July 29, 2011, 21:27:49

Title: harvesting main crop spuds?
Post by: RenishawPhil on July 29, 2011, 21:27:49
Is anyone harvesting their mains yet?. A couple of guys on our allotment have done so.  One guy has deseree to die.  I've got a bit of blight but removing the offending leaves.  Wanted.to.leave them in ground to Sept if possible to get them as big as possible.
Title: Re: harvesting main crop spuds?
Post by: Tee Gee on July 29, 2011, 21:57:05
Steady on!!

I have only just lifted my first four roots of earlies.

Just another 16 roots to go then I get on to my 2 nd earlies which I treat as main crop!

Then I will get on to my PFA' s

In total the lot will last me till next March/ April time.

Have to say my earlies are brilliant ( Rocket)
Title: Re: harvesting main crop spuds?
Post by: davyw1 on July 29, 2011, 22:02:15
Much the same as Tee Gee not into my seconed earlies yet and wont be for some time.
My Rocket were also a very good crop, to many chips out of one spud
Title: Re: harvesting main crop spuds?
Post by: RenishawPhil on July 29, 2011, 22:07:58
Well was quite surprised myself. 
Title: Re: harvesting main crop spuds?
Post by: manicscousers on July 29, 2011, 22:19:57
Cut the tops off our desiree with a view to harvesting before we go away mid august. Ours went in in march, huge crop already, 112 lb from one 12x4 bed , kestrels. The desiree look to be similar, although we have a bit of scab  :)
Title: Re: harvesting main crop spuds?
Post by: pumkinlover on July 29, 2011, 22:20:46
I'm not sure :-\
Last year I cut a lot of tops off to stop blight, then left them and dug up later. This made it hard to dry them off and I think this contibuted to them getting so frosted in the cold weather :-\

I plant a lot of spuds so I think I will start to dig up even if the individual potato could get bigger if left :)