My tubs are quite big and they have loads of soil in now so I think I am just going to let the spuds/leaves grow now......I'm getting impatient and want spuds
Not been any posts on here for a while but I thought I'd give a quick update as to what my potatoes are up to that I planted end of may, I did everything right and they're wild! Huge potatoe bushes I have now haha.
They look like they're about to flower too and with them being maris peers they flower purple!
Just wondered if I could get a last bit of advice and see when people harvest theirs as I've heard a fair few different things.
I've heard you can harvest before they flower, while they're in flower, after the flowers die, when all the leaves start dieing off and turning yellow?
Which is everybody's preference or do you all go for the grope around method?
Hi Dan, I was wondering the same but have heard recently that they should have finished flowering. I have just watched GW this afternoon and Monty said to harvest after flowering, his were Charlotte, the same variety as one of mine.
I'm not sure about the grope around method?? I don't want any bugs on my hands but is suppose if I have my gloves on
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My tubs are quite big and they have loads of soil in now so I think I am just going to let the spuds/leaves grow now......I'm getting impatient and want spuds
Not been any posts on here for a while but I thought I'd give a quick update as to what my potatoes are up to that I planted end of may, I did everything right and they're wild! Huge potatoe bushes I have now haha.
They look like they're about to flower too and with them being maris peers they flower purple!
Just wondered if I could get a last bit of advice and see when people harvest theirs as I've heard a fair few different things.
I've heard you can harvest before they flower, while they're in flower, after the flowers die, when all the leaves start dieing off and turning yellow?
Which is everybody's preference or do you all go for the grope around method?
Thanks.
Hi Dan, I was wondering the same but have heard recently that they should have finished flowering. I have just watched GW this afternoon and Monty said to harvest after flowering, his were Charlotte, the same variety as one of mine.
I'm not sure about the grope around method?? I don't want any bugs on my hands but is suppose if I have my gloves on