November potato sprouts

[marigold007]

Hi,

I've grown a lot of potatoes on my allotment this year and haven't gotten around to digging them all up yet (that's an understatement). About 1/3rd of them are pink fir apple which I had thought I could leave in the ground all winter and dig up when needed.

The rest are Picasso, Charlotte, and Belle de Fontenay.

I also left a few of the red duke of york and some blue ones that were really good 1st earlies, I think. The problem is that the red dukes of york now have 2 ft plant tops on them! I haven't been to the allotment in 3 weeks until today when I harvested my pumpkins...

Is this going to happen to all of them? What's the fate of the red dukes of york?

I am also wondering if anyone knows anything about the Autumn planting of potatoes. Last year, I put some home-grown Maris Peer in the ground in Autumn and they grew wonderful potatoes without a lot of top growth in the Spring. It's definitely neater that way if it could be true for all potatoes.

[marigold007]

Anybody?????

[greasyfire]

I haver put down some poatoes but im growing them from tuber. I am puting them in a tub and putting it in those plastic unheated greenhouse. I am also growing poatoes i planted in the summed and to be honest i don knwo what so ever. It seems to me that they are quite hardy but dont lik wind or frost.

[jacob marley]

The fate of the red Duke of York is the frost will finish them of but you could well get some spuds from them if the frost leaves them alone....jacob

[rustylady]

Only trouble with leaving them out all winter is that the leaves will be killed by frost. If the land is spare give it a go.