Green Potatoes

[AnnetteJ]

Hello

I've been growing potatoes - pentland javelin - in deep green potato pods. I've just been for a furtle and pulled out a fairly big potato from the very bottom of the bag, but it's green! It hasn't been uncovered - is there something wrong with my plants?

Any help would be appreciated!

Thank you!
Annette

[AnnetteJ]

Well - how stupid do I feel now! Panic over - it was the seed potato!! What a numpty!! I was that worried I tipped out the whole bag and managed to harvest a whole 7 and a quarter ounces of very tidgy potatoes! Not the 20lbs plus I was hoping for from 5 plants!! I did think I would get more - I planted them 13 weeks ago and I would have thought they would be ready by now!

Any ideas on how much longer it will be before they're ready?

Thanks for your help!
Annette

[tattieman]

Give them plenty of water now and they will soon bulk up. Give them some foliar feed to help the job. I had a bit furtle at mine tonight and they are bigger than hens eggs.

[AnnetteJ]

Thanks Tattieman! I know I'm going to sound really stupid again (in my defence I haven't grown anything before!!) what is a foliar feed and where do I get it from?

Thanks for your help!
Annette

[tattieman]

You can get products like maxicrop which you dilute in water and spray onto the leaves.
You should always give potatoes lots of feeding to make the most of them.

[Two_Sheds]

On the other hand, I never water or feed my spuds, and always get lots!

(they are grown in the ground though, not in a bucket, so ignore me).

[sweetiepea]

Apart from putting well rotted manure into the drills or tub prior to planting, I've never fed mine either, and I've never been disappointed with the crop.

[ann-the-nan]

Green Potatoe

Cautionary warning. When all your beautiful potatoes are ready (and they will be) any that have grown too near the surface and have got green skin, dump them. Generally this means they are poisonous. This was the main cause of the famous Irish Potato Famine. Anyroadup, best wishes for some really wonderful taiters.

[Llamas]

Apart from putting well rotted manure into the drills or tub prior to planting, I've never fed mine either, and I've never been disappointed with the crop.

Oh phew, I've been totally ignoring my spuds whilst spoiling my pumpkins. Would hate to think of them starving whilst I was lovingly ladeling on the good stuff to those greedy guts toms and pumpins.

[ckfe]

Well - how stupid do I feel now! Panic over - it was the seed potato!! What a numpty!!
Annette

lol that tickled me annette

[womble]

Cautionary warning. When all your beautiful potatoes are ready (and they will be) any that have grown too near the surface and have got green skin, dump them. Generally this means they are poisonous. This was the main cause of the famous Irish Potato Famine. Anyroadup, best wishes for some really wonderful taiters.

I thought Blight was the reason for the Irish potato famine?

[SarzWix]

Cautionary warning. When all your beautiful potatoes are ready (and they will be) any that have grown too near the surface and have got green skin, dump them. Generally this means they are poisonous. This was the main cause of the famous Irish Potato Famine. Anyroadup, best wishes for some really wonderful taiters.

Funny, I always thought it was a particularly strong strain of Blight, worsened by the fact that everyone grew the same variety of potato, on land that had grown potatoes for far too long...

[womble]

Funny, I always thought it was a particularly strong strain of Blight, worsened by the fact that everyone grew the same variety of potato, on land that had grown potatoes for far too long...

A much more eloquent version of my post

Learn to type faster and you might have got in there first

[Snadger]

Just to rub salt into the wound.............I must admit......I thought it was blight also!

[womble]

Just to rub salt into the wound.............I must admit......I thought it was blight also!

Well unless they learnt that year to grow their potatoes upside down, so all the tubers went green, I think it must be blight