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i know there are quiet a few posts on this subject but i couldnt find any to cover this one, my pink fur apples are starting to floor and from other posts on potatoes this tends to be the point where you can start to lift them - but am i too early - comments and suggestions please
o buy the way im up in edinburgh if that helps any
p.s. pic of the pinks coming up

Don't dig them up yet... they are a late main and don't start to form tubers until the nights start to draw in. End of Sept if you are lucky, end of October better..
Could be problematic that far North.
:-\

You can lift first earlies at this stage, but leave PFA till the foliage has died back.

thanks for that - think i might go for earlies next time - was wanting the patch for something else later in the year - but hey ho - 1st year at the allotment - hopefully i will learn lol

They're a funny one - I grew up in Tain in the North of Scotland & we always grew them. We had tonnes, so many that to this day neither I nor any of my siblings can eat them with any enjoyment. I don't know why, but they love a cold climate!

Stick with them.  It's worth it. I grew them last year and am growing them again this year because they have such a fantastic flavour. I find that they keep popping up on the part of the plot where I grew them last year, because I must have missed a few small ones when I harvested - a bit like Jerusalem artichokes. So I'll have an extra crop.  :)

They keep well, too.  We were still eating last year's in March/April.

If you want an early that's similar to Pink Fir, I suggest Anya, which is a second early.

Quote from: OllieC on June 21, 2008, 22:19:30
They're a funny one - I grew up in Tain in the North of Scotland & we always grew them. We had tonnes, so many that to this day neither I nor any of my siblings can eat them with any enjoyment. I don't know why, but they love a cold climate!

small world olliec - i have relatives in Tain they have been up there for at least the last 34 years.  Uncle and at least one of my cousins work at Nig on the oil rigs

Aha, it is indeed a small world... shall om you...

pm, not om. That wouldn't make sense.

Anya are a good substitute, not quite as good, cross with Desiree. Can be lifted before Blight or Frost, before the end of July...
;D

I thought they were pretty good. Have you tried roasting them Saddad.

Not a long keeper though.

When did you put them in TTT , mine never went in until the first week in June, I just lost track of time, a couple of wet weekends and a few weekends away  and it was June, I dug mine up in November last year and finished then off by June, nice roasties but better chips.  :P     ;D ;D ;D

Ollie I thought maybe you were saying "shalom"? ;D

I confess to being a philistine where PFA are concerned. I've given up growing them because I really don't like them. :-[
TT they grow fine here in Edinburgh but think more late August/early September for lifting them. If you get blight cut the haulms off sharpish - the tatties will still keep growing and be good in the ground for a bit longer.

How can you not like PFA??

So versatile, so easy peeling, SO tasty!!

Ah well one of my sons and lots of his cousins call mushrooms "vegetable slugs"  so clearly there's a genetic disorder! ;D ;D

each to their own Grawc - you never know i may not like them after all the work ive put in lol
thanks for the local feed back - will just have to perserver with whats left of the plot till later in the year - its not a big plot ive got - its only 30ft x 20/24ft but its giving us some lovely veg, just lifted some spring onions and early nantes carrots and been sickened with the lettuce already lol