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My fingers are itching to furtle my early potatoes. Good head of top but no flowers yet.
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Not all spuds flower before the crop is ready ya know!
( there you are- and excuse to have a furtle!
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"Nicos, Queen of Gooooogle" and... GYO's own Miss Marple
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That flower thing is a bit of a red herring, as Nicos says - but you'll be wasting your time furtling unless the spuds have been in for about 10wks.
When did you plant them?Comment
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Oh lordy wish I knew. Very early in the greater perspective I know. I do not not even know if the category was 'early'. They were Smile. Enough said...itchy fingers aloft I will fiddle lol....Comment
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I thought you could harvest when the leaves started to die down? My rockets have loads of growth up top, really tall and leafy.Comment
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Earlies should be ready in 12ish weeks; so if they went in during Feb then you might have a result soon.
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My first earlies in the polytunnel should be ready from 27 May - am proper excited as the stored main crop from last year that are left really have seen better days now!
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Depending on what variety of spud you plant and where you are in the UK, first earlies can be ready in as little as 8 weeks. (Swift and Rocket can fit this category)
Most first earlies will be ready before the plant flowers.Rat
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I know the feeling, I planted one "Charlotte" and one "Nicola" in abucket each in GH 28th Feb , so hopefylly should get fresh new potatoes for the bank holiday weekend.Last edited by COMPOST CORNER; 18-05-2010, 08:28 PM.Comment
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Reading this is giving me an excuse to have a furtle. Mine went in the second week of March and there was a flower about to open . Then they got caught by a frost. Hmmm think a furtle is in order.S*d the housework I have a lottie to dig
a batch of jam is always an act of creation ..Christine Ferber
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Definitely furtle! I always leave mine too long because I worry about digging too early and then miss the first baby potatoes, which are the best ones after all!Life is too short for drama & petty things!
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Good good . Tomorrow I'll be furtling
(Any excuse for a furtle )
S*d the housework I have a lottie to dig
a batch of jam is always an act of creation ..Christine Ferber
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Glad I'm not the only one. I had a cheeky furtle today but will leave them in their pots for a bit yetComment
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was eyeing mine up this afternoon,just wondering,so tomorrow i will haveto have a look-see,
sigpicAnother nutter ,wife,mother, nan and nanan,love my growing places,seed collection and sharing,also one of theseComment
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Mine went in weekend after St Paddys day.. so by my reckoning that's the 6th of June. I've a few bags of each, so may try some a week before then to see.Comment
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