Potato Yield Survey

[coreopsis]

I'll join in a bit later as I have late maincrop-Desiree and Pink Fir Apple.They are in the ground,covered with MPC,no fertilizer.5kg of Desiree seed potatoes(2 packs) and 2.5kg of Pink Fir Apple(1 bag)-roughly.
Dug up a few Desiree's before the holidays,most of them plum size(have to wait a bit longer)

[Alan G]

1) Nicola (2nd early)
2) 2 x Wilkos pop-up buckets
3) Multi-purpose compost
4) Seaweed feed once week from week 5 onwards
5) 2 seed potatoes in one bucket, 3 seed potatoes in the other
6) Approx 12 to 14 weeks from planting to harvest
7) Approx 5lbs of potatoes, or 1lb per seed potato
8) Medium to large new potatoes

[teakdesk]

Bumping this thread..

[Two_Sheds]

sorry, I don't weigh anything

1/ Pink Fir Apple, late maincrop, salad potato
Grown in open ground with garden compost added
No feed/fertiliser
17 weeks from planting to harvest
average 6 spuds per plant
Good size
No slug or scab damage

2/ Mayan Gold, early maincrop, salad/chip potato
Grown in open ground
No feed/fertiliser
2 seed potatoes
16 weeks from planting to harvest
small size potatoes, but plenty of them
No slug or scab damage

3/ Arran Pilot, first early salad potato
Grown in open ground
No feed/fertiliser
6 seed potatoes
12 weeks from planting to harvest
large size potatoes

4/ King Edward maincrop
Grown in open ground
No feed/fertiliser
approx 20 seed potatoes
17 weeks from planting to harvest
Loads of potatoes obtained
mixed size potatoes (marble size to large baker)
lots of scab damage and a few sluggy ones too. Not impressed

5/ Skerry Blue
Grown in containers
multi-purpose compost
A bit of comfrey feed
2 seed potatoes
14 weeks from planting to harvest
pathetic amount of potatoes obtained
very small size potatoes
waste of time

6/ Mr Little's Yetholm Gypsy
Grown in container
multi purpose compost
A bit of comfrey feed
1 seed potato
17 weeks from planting to harvest
about 12 potatoes obtained
hens egg sized potatoes
Very impressed, a lovely deep purple spud. A bit dry/floury, but OK baked

7/ Druid, late maincrop
Grown in open ground
No feed/fertiliser
3 seed potatoes
How many weeks from planting to harvest - still growing after 17 wks, when all others have died back
supposed to be blight resistant
Very impressed: huge spuds, lots of them, nice pink colour, not too much scab

8/ Rooster
Grown in open ground
No feed/fertiliser
6 seed potatoes
13 weeks from planting to harvest
OK Size of potatoes, not many of them
Disappointing: scabby & not many of them

9/ Anya
Grown in open ground
No feed/fertiliser
2 seed potatoes
16 weeks from planting to harvest
only 4 potatoes obtained
Hopeless! what happened?

10/ Yukon Gold, 2nd early
Grown in open ground
No feed/fertiliser
1 seed potato
16 weeks from planting to harvest
good looking spud but not many of them
No slug or scab damage

11/ Charlotte, 2nd early
Grown in open ground
No feed/fertiliser
6 seed potatoes
20 weeks from planting to harvest (cos I forgot where they were)
good size potatoes, plenty of them
No slug or scab damage at all, superb


** the spuds with scab did not have any grass clippings added. The rest did. I am convinced it helps

[craftygirl24]

Can't remember what brand 1st a nd 2nd earlies were but they were grown in potato bags, some in peat free compost and some in cheap multipurpose compost. 1st earlies gave me about 6 lbs per bag, 2nd earlies gave me exactly 9 lbs per bag. Each bag had 5 seed potatoes in. Have planted 4 bags of maincrop Cara pots (again 5 seed pots in each bag). Have emptied 2 bags so far, each yielding 9 lbs - again! These were all in peat free compost. I fed all the bags once a week with Miracle Grow attached to my hose and kept them well watered in between times. Potato sizes have been pretty good on the whole with not too many little ones. I'm going to plant some more to see if I can get a crop for Christmas.

[planesailing]

1/ International Kidney
2/ Raised Bed
3/ Mixture of exsisting topsoil (on the clay side), added GC topsoil and MPC
4/ Maxicrop seaweed spinkled on sowing, watered with seaweed mix also
5/ 1kg in weight, one didnt grow
6/ 10.5
7/ Did weigh, volume of about 7.5 litres deep (I dug them up and put them in a 15l Trug
8/ Quite a few good sized potatoes in there, was pleased with the size after the Sharpes Express came out so small

Would recommend them for next year.

[susieq100]

Ist Earlies - Lady Christl
In open ground, well-rotted Horse Manure
1kg of seed spuds
Started lifting at 13 weeks
Did not weigh yield but one root was more than enough for a good meal for 2 of us and we're greedy devils so about 1.5-2lbs of potatoes per root.
Nice waxy texture, taste was OK but not great.
Probably won't bother with them again.
2nd Earlies
Same as above
Started lifting at 14 weeks
Yield less than Lady Christl and again quite disappointed with the flavour
Definitely won't bother again.
Main crop
Pink Fir Apple
As above
Started lifting last week (so 15-16 weeks)
Yield not huge maybe 2lbs per root but the taste is sublime!
Will definitely grow these again!

[SarzWix]

Right, well, as I said, I didn't weigh them, so I'll just give them a rating of High, Average, or Low for the yield.

Ulster Sceptre
Planted in various containers in MP compost. Didn't get watered enough, or fed. Medium yield of salad sized potatoes with a couple of big ones at the bottom.

Dunluce
Planted in containers, and neglected as above. Low yield of medium sized potatoes with strangely textured skin.

Nicola
Planted, and neglected, as above. Medium yield of varying sized potatoes - some decent sized, some tidgy. Really nice potatoes.

Anya
Planted and neglected, as above. Small yield of small potatoes. If it wasn't for the lovely flavour, I'd never ever grow them again

Charlotte
Planted as above. Medium yield of decent sized potatoes, with a few tiddlers. Not as waxy as usual, better steamed.

Desiree
Planted in the ground on lottie, manured over winter. The tops didn't grow very big, and succumbed to Target Spot (early blight) in the dry weather. They still managed to yield a couple of big spuds, and 2 or 3 small ones per plant. Flavour and texture as lovely as usual.

Sarpo Mira & Sarpo Axona still to be harvested.

[esbo]

king Edwards from pound shop iirc 627 grammes 1.38 pounds
planted in early April i think no special treatment bit of urine in water

i would have left them longer but the rain flattened them and i needed some space for other plants
I am pretty pleased, would have cost 70p to buy form sainsburys.

[LincolnshireFloyd]

To the OP. Why bother with trying to grow by weight? Surely it's the taste that is the deciding factor isn't it? I never weigh my spuds as I don't see the point.
Looking through the numerous posts I'm amazed that nobody has mentioned Vivaldi or Marfona which, after Pink Fir Apple are probably the most tastiest spuds out there. I know taste is subjective to a degree but they are top of my shopping list every year just for flavour.
I'll try some new varieties every year just to keep proving to myself that Vivaldi and Marfon and PFA can't be beat but I've never grown so many different varieties as Two Sheds. Hats off to you mate.

[Thelma Sanders]

Well the thread is 4 years old................perhaps people's methods and tastes have changed now

[esbo]

To the OP. Why bother with trying to grow by weight? Surely it's the taste that is the deciding factor isn't it? I never weigh my spuds as I don't see the point.
Looking through the numerous posts I'm amazed that nobody has mentioned Vivaldi or Marfona which, after Pink Fir Apple are probably the most tastiest spuds out there. I know taste is subjective to a degree but they are top of my shopping list every year just for flavour.
I'll try some new varieties every year just to keep proving to myself that Vivaldi and Marfon and PFA can't be beat but I've never grown so many different varieties as Two Sheds. Hats off to you mate.

Because weight is vital, no good having 3 grammes of a lovely tasting potato is there?

I was trying to find out what was a reasonable weight of potatoes from one plant, you would think that would be simple but it is pretty much impossible to find the answer, and even if you did get one you would need a degree in biology and agriculture to make sense of it.

[esbo]

Let's have a listing of what yield you get from your potatoes (it will give me and others an idea of what to grow next year!!)....

Please state
1/ Variety
2/ Grown in container or open ground
3/ What compost
4/ What feed/fertiliser
5/ How many seed potatoes
6/ How many weeks from planting to harvest
7/ Weight of potatoes obtained.
8/ Size of potatoes (all new potato size or all larger or a mixture of sizes)

I'll start...


1/ Accent
2/ B&Q buckets
3/ Multi-purpose compost
4/ Tomato feed once a week for last 5 weeks
5/ 2 seed potatoes per bucket
6/ 16 weeks from planting to harvest (we've not been eating potatoes much recently so this is longer than normal)
7/ 6 buckets harvested with 1.1kg of potatoes in each bucket
8/ Mainly large sized potatoes


1/ Dunluce
2/ B&Q buckets
3/ Multi-purpose compost
4/ Tomato feed once a week for last 5 weeks
5/ 2 seed potatoes per bucket
6/ 16 weeks from planting to harvest (we've not been eating potatoes much recently so this is longer than normal)
7/ 1 bucket harvested with 0.9kg of potatoes
8/ Mixture of large and small sizes


Note - I harvested another bucket of Dunluce earlier at 12 weeks and only had 330g of potatoes so left them for longer. The first bucket had some potatoes at new potato size but quite a few tidlers. The second bucket has a better yield but some potatoes are quite large.

Note 2 - the potatoes could have been harvested earlier and they would have been smaller than the ones I have got which are quite large (ie not new potato size).

Surely a yield in kg or lbs per plant would be a lot simpler to understand perhaps?

Anyhow as it happens I got about 630 grammes per plant and you got 450-550 grammes
per plant, mind you yours were in buckets and mine in the ground which helps a bit
but mine were rather shaded.

Forgot to record exactly when mine were planted but 1st april is a good guess so makes mine
in for 16 weeks (same as yours).

I harvested some because the plants were flattened a bit by heavy rain yesterday, but I
was also seeing some signs they might be dying back a bit, brown yellow leaves.
But I think the rest will grow some more if I give them a few more weeks.

[LincolnshireFloyd]

Because weight is vital, no good having 3 grammes of a lovely tasting potato is there?

I was trying to find out what was a reasonable weight of potatoes from one plant, you would think that would be simple but it is pretty much impossible to find the answer, and even if you did get one you would need a degree in biology and agriculture to make sense of it.

If you were a commercial grower I would absolutely agree with you but for your own consumption taste must be paramount surely. Your example of 3 grams isn't really valid as we all know that a good healthy plant will produce more than that.
It's sod's law that the most tasty potato produces the least yield but look at the replies you've had and Pink Fir Apple is the one most mentioned because of its flavour rather than its yield because it never gives as much as (say) those tasteless Sarpo varieties.
What would you rather grow Pink Fir Apple that is prone to blight so has to be nurtured with that in mind but has good flavour but a low yield, also with a knobbly appearance that puts a lot of people off. Or Sarpo that is blight resistant and will give you loads of huge spuds that are easy to peel but taste like cardboard?