my rooster spuds

[dawny]

Hi Everyone, hope you dont mind me asking!!!......Has anyone tried growing rooster spuds & if so did you get a good yeild off them? I'm not sure of these as I grew Nicola spuds last year! Thanks in advance

[Caro]

Hi Dawny,

I'm growing a couple of potato sacks of rooster this year. It's too early for me to know what the yield will be though. They are maincrop, so presumably there should be a decent yield?

Anyone?

[zazen999]

With spuds, indeed most crops, it depends on the soil, the weather, where they are grown, the nutrients, how long you leave them for etc etc. It's very hard to say!

[sewer rat]

I grew Rooster last year ( I planted 25kg seed tubers) and was very very pleased with the results. They produced an excellent crop of medium to large tubers which had very little scab and were of excellent quality. The only downside was that the shaws (the bit of the plant above ground) were very tall and this made things difficult for spraying them for blight with my knapsack sprayer, and also meant a lot of material to dispose of at harvesting.

[yellow van]

Hi. I'm doing roosters as well this year, and am amazed at how tall the greenerey is. Thought it was down to all the rain, and meant titchy spuds, (energy going into leaves)but pleased to hear its normal. I love rooster chips om nom nom!

[dawndaisy]

rooster spuds

I grew roosters last year and was really impressed with the flavour. I harvested early because of blight in other plants in my garden, but still got a decent crop.
The taste was great, even the kids comented that they were tasty, without knowing they were home grown.

Dawndaisy

[chris]

Hi. I'm doing roosters as well this year, and am amazed at how tall the greenerey is. Thought it was down to all the rain, and meant titchy spuds, (energy going into leaves)but pleased to hear its normal. I love rooster chips om nom nom!

Same here.. my foilage is probably twice the height of the sacks that they're grown in!

[ZeroMac]

Hi,

I grew Roosters in containers last year and got a decent yeild. But as they are a main crop the tubers were at best only a medium size. I expect they run out of room in the pot though.

[chris]

Just had a look at mine last night - literally just under the surface were quite a few roosters, probably about 3-4cm in size..

Flowers have started to die back - so I'm hoping there are some larger ones down furhter in the sack! (Didn't dig down too much to look incase I broke any spuds!)