First potato up!!

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I put some Epicure seed potatoes in buckets at the beginning of Feb. They are just showing through this morning ;D ;D ;D.

Roll on the end of April, yum yum :D

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[dtw]

I thought this was going to be the first crop.  :o

Mine are still chitting.

[Chris Graham]

Mine are almost, removed some soild too see what was happening.

[GrannieAnnie]

I put some Epicure seed potatoes in buckets at the beginning of Feb. They are just showing through this morning ;D ;D ;D.

Roll on the end of April, yum yum :D

Were these in your house or greenhouse and are they little round potatoes (what we'd call new potatoes?)  I've never successfully grown any type because of flea beetles but all this potato talk gets tempting. ::)

[Barnowl]

I think my container grown Vivaldi are in with a chance of winning this one - planted in October and forgotten about until haulms appeared in late January.

[Weed-Digga]

Our 'Orla' are just starting to poke their foliage up!! 5 planted in a potato bag in the cold greenhouse about 2 months ago.

Weed-Digga

[asbean]

My swift were well chitting, I put them in black buckets in the poly tunnel yesterday. With the good weather (fingers crossed) they should come on ... er ... swiftly  :) :) :)

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I put some Epicure seed potatoes in buckets at the beginning of Feb. They are just showing through this morning ;D ;D ;D.

Roll on the end of April, yum yum :D

Were these in your house or greenhouse and are they little round potatoes (what we'd call new potatoes?)  I've never successfully grown any type because of flea beetles but all this potato talk gets tempting. ::)

They were done in the outhouse, glass fronted with a plastic corrugated roof. I have not grown Epicure before, I think the earliness will dictate they will be small potatoes, I think it doesn't really matter which variety you grow or wether 1st, 2nd earlies or maincrop. If you pick any of them early (young) enough they will all be 'new potatoes'

Im sure I will get put right if Im wrong on that :D

On mild days I put the buckets outside in the sun ;)

[actiongran]

Here in sunny Norfolk I put my Swift in the ground ( after chitting for 6weeks) at  the Lotty at the weekend in a trench of 'perfect muck'. It was my mothers day treat to myself! The ground has been covered for a month and the soil was lovely to fork over. I know there  is more cold on the way but in another 4weeks we could be bathed in sun & drought like last year( 6weeks with no rain, last week of March to first week of May!) .....as always they 've got two choices.