Main crop potatoes
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Lots of our second earlies aren't flowering yet. Often we don't get flowers at all.
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Hi, could be the exceptional early spring weather we had. Did you plant earlier than usual? - as Monika suggests have a little "proddle about"
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I think people worry to much over the flowers being the governing point on whether the potatoes are ready or not.
If they are lates and the tops are still green, leave them alone and you will get a lot bigger crop.
If you dig them too early, and the skins haven't set, they won't keep very well.
If they are lates and the tops are still green, leave them alone and you will get a lot bigger crop.
If you dig them too early, and the skins haven't set, they won't keep very well.
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oldherbaceous wrote:I think people worry to much over the flowers being the governing point on whether the potatoes are ready or not.
If they are lates and the tops are still green, leave them alone and you will get a lot bigger crop.
If you dig them too early, and the skins haven't set, they won't keep very well.
Sound advice indeed oldherbaceous.
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I lifted a couple of rows of potatoes yesterday and the soil was very dry. There were a good number of potatoes, but they were small to medium rather than any large ones. I usually wait until the tops start yellowing or dying back a bit and leave the ones that are still nice and green for later.
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I am hoping that the rain we've had, although not much around here, will have done the maincrop sopuds a lot of good, as they have come into flower at the same time as the rain. It is said that they need watering whenthey flower. My earlies have been almost a waste of time, as it has been so dry in the spring.
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