My spud, erm, 'harvest'

[piskieinboots]

so I digs up me first earlies and this is what I got.....
Mimi - from 5 tubers = 100g
Accent - from 9 tubers = 1.9k lots better

[zazen999]

100g from 5 tubers??? That's not funny at all.

I have to say, 1.9 kg from 9 still isn't.

[dan1979]

My harvest from two B&Q buckets..

Some of those required no chopping!

[piskieinboots]

cr*p innit Andrea - total cr*p
*sobs and goes to Waitrose

[zazen999]

Blimey oh riley.

We've harvested 2 kg already, and that's just from furtling

[Demeter]

We had our first furtle yesterday and got probably about 2kg (didn't weigh it, but we divvied it up between the 4 of us and we each had a flowerpot full, at a guess about half a kg each) mind, that's from 30 plants.

[piskieinboots]

I'm expecting better things from the second earlies at the lottie - this lot above were grown in spud bags, but there was plenty of room....they just didn't produce

[zazen999]

I watched the linky on here a few weeks ago about getting a shed load of spuds from just 5 seed potatoes. I didn't believe it until last week; when furtliing, I found a really really long root from one of my earlies which was over 2 ft long. Next year, I'm trying less seed potatoes and more space inbetween to see what occurs. I'm weighing all my crop so that I can get an average weight for each original tuber, and will compare next year's crop.

Hopefully, next year's soil will be alot looser and more organic than this year's - I think although it does break up clayey soil, where we had to dig one plant up today - it hasn't broken it up at all - it's just grown sideways. It's only broken up where we have planted, weeded and earthed it up - and then dug it out.

Still not convinced about using pots/bags to grow them in - last year's crop was rubbish and I put it down to moving the pots 20 miles in the back of the truck halfway through their growing season - but I think it is the limited space - I don't think they really like it all that much.

[SarzWix]

Mimi didn't do brilliantly for us either, but they're only supposed to be tiny little things anyway. Did you have them in the ground or in a pot? Ours were in a pot, and they did dry out a bit which wouldn't have helped. But I think all the potatoes are a bit behind themselves this year - my Anya are supposedly ready now, but they're still tiny so I'm feeding them with weak 'Power Feed' (see link) and watering a lot in the hope that they'll get bigger before the Charlotte run out!

Power Feed Liquid Compost

[HeyWayne]

My harvest from two B&Q buckets..

Some of those required no chopping!

And you peeled 'em by the looks of it!?!

[piskieinboots]

And you peeled 'em by the looks of it!?!

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[Alice]

Interesting thread about potato yields. I only grow in buckets. I usually get about 4 lbs (2 kg) per bucket. That's a very good yield. I think anything over 3lbs (1.5Kgs) is considered good.
Last year I gor 6lbs of Rooster from a bucket. And 1 lot of Nadine split the bucket - so deduct 99p from the yield.
Anyway, however many you get it's all potatoes that haven't been sprayed with paraquat (yes commercial growers do do that so stop blight getting down to the tubers) or anything else. Hope you get bigger crops.

[piskieinboots]

Anyway, however many you get it's all potatoes that haven't been sprayed with paraquat (yes commercial growers do do that so stop blight getting down to the tubers) or anything else. Hope you get bigger crops.

Very true Alice, good way of viewing it I will update this post as soon as I lift the lottie crop

[dan1979]

And you peeled 'em by the looks of it!?!

Wasn't going to let anything go to waste and I'm quite a skilled peeler after so much practice.

[lumpyjumper]

I only managed 1lb of Pentland Javelins from my first pot.
very disappointing, and of those I found only 4 were bigger than a ping-pong ball!

My grandmother managed 6lb from her garden from 3 plants, and they were the same seed potatoes because I gave them to her.

I've a tall potato planter to go yet, let's see what I get from that.

However, I've also just been sent a warning about a full Smith's period in my area so blight is a possibility so I shall harvest soon and check my tomatoes daily.