How long do your spuds last?

[Snadger]

I have had Desiree spuds last me through to May the following year in a straw clamp!

This year I am just digging them as I need them and still have loads of earlies to dig before I start on the 2nd Earlies.

I have my maincrop planted at home and if we fancy a few chips I just dig enough for a meal!

Hope to get well into the new year...........but we'll see!

[solway cropper]

Don't take any notice of what gardening books tell you...especially about the economics of growing your own. I only grow early spuds and picked the first lot 7th June when they were exorbitant in the shops. Eventually got 74lbs of spuds from £6.95 worth of seed tubers. All used up a long time ago...we love spuds, but don't have a big enough garden.

[StephenH]

If you put an apple in each paper sack of potatoes, you will find that they don't sprout. This year most people will have quite a surfeit of apples !

Not me - my biennial-bearing tree is 'on' in even years. Useful tip, though - I'll remember that!

[Snadger]

Not me - my biennial-bearing tree is 'on' in even years. Useful tip, though - I'll remember that!

Likewise..........hell of a crop last year and pitiful this year! Ah, well here's hoping for next year!

[phil the shed]

we had our first tatties on 15th may and hope it lasts till christmas made it to january this year but we always aim for christmas.
best year was 07 had spuds till february but only just at there best

[Alison]

We've hardly main an indent into ours, possibly used about 10% of the harvest so if they keep OK they should see us through the winter with some to spare.

[Joanne]

We have used all ours, started pulling first earlies in June and finish the Main middle of September, couldn't have grown anymore even if I wanted to though (lack so space) they took up two of my beds as it is. Tasty though, will plant again next year.

[StephenH]

Likewise..........hell of a crop last year and pitiful this year! Ah, well here's hoping for next year!

Mine has been a biennial-bearer since I moved here in '78, gradually getting more so. (My avatar is a photo of it.) My theory is that the very hot summer of '76 tipped it into biennial-bearing. Maybe yours too, if it's an old tree.
However, off-topic. Back to the spuds...