Pink Fir Apples

[pongeroon]

We have far too many of these delicious spuds, but we want to use a s many as we can, obviously. We have cut off the haulm, but would we be best to leave them in the ground? How well do they keep once lifted??

[Beryl]

They are main crop potatoes and will keep well into the new year if stored in the usual way in paper or hesian sacks.

Beryl.

[oldherbaceous]

Dear Pongeroon, just make sure the skins have set before storing them or they won't keep very well at all.
By that i mean, you should not be able to rub the skin off like you can with a new potato.

[pongeroon]

Thanks beryl and OH, that is good news. We will leave them in a bit longer then, and hope to get them out before the slugs start feasting...

The seed potatoes were given to us by a neighbouring allotmenteer. I had never grown them before, though my fine young man remembered his grandfather growing them years ago and how ggod they are. They will be an annual event on our patch from now on.