I agree with you - when do you know the spuds are ready once they have been in a while and grown up high with flowers on. Also do you pick the flowers off I thought I heard that you should do that!!
For a maximum crop, wait till the tops begin to die back, or are dead. If you can't wait, don't dig up a whole potato -- finger in the ground under the tops and there will be [hopefully]a few pots. big enough to eat, and probably lots of "golf balls" or smaller. Take the one or two from each pot. which are big enough to eat and leave the little 'uns to 'grow on'. No need to pick the flowers off! -- but for the uninitiated, if there's any 'green tomatoes'on the tops, don't eat them. you'll regret it if you do.
Hi advice please...? Am growing pots for the first time, an early variety. Until recently I had two rows of very healthy looking plants. Then one at the end of a row started turning a bit brown, not as severly as the potato blight pics I've found on here but it seems to have now spread right along one row and into my second. the first problem plants leaves are now turning yellow. Is this blight and if so can I fix this? Or is this a result of something I have/haven't done?
I have grown vegetables of all sorts for many years, and have recently been asked if I had ever taken seed potatoe from this years' crop to plant for next year, but left those seed potatoes outside 'to go green'. Has anyone heard of this happening and why is it done?
Can anyone help, my seed potatoes arrived late last year and the fool that I am stored them in the wrong place. I have very long white shoots, what should I do? Should I remove them and put them in the light to start chitting or should I just leave the long shoots and chit anyway.
i have never seen such prevaracation. a simple questuion "when do I harvest my potatoes?" should have been given a clear answer instead of all this drivel. so when do i harvest my potatoes?
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If you can't wait, don't dig up a whole potato -- finger in the ground under the tops and there will be [hopefully]a few pots. big enough to eat, and probably lots of "golf balls" or smaller. Take the one or two from each pot. which are big enough to eat and leave the little 'uns to 'grow on'. No need to pick the flowers off! -- but for the uninitiated, if there's any 'green tomatoes'on the tops, don't eat them. you'll regret it if you do.
Am growing pots for the first time, an early variety. Until recently I had two rows of very healthy looking plants. Then one at the end of a row started turning a bit brown, not as severly as the potato blight pics I've found on here but it seems to have now spread right along one row and into my second. the first problem plants leaves are now turning yellow. Is this blight and if so can I fix this? Or is this a result of something I have/haven't done?
Thanks