Good year for spuds?

[Potstubsdustbins]

I was watering my Picasso main crop today as usual with a 2 gallon bucket as the water soaked in this is what I found. If they are this high up the bin it looks like it could be a good year for spuds.

Colin.

[BUFFS]

good for you,as you say it could be a bumper crop,we lost most of ours to blight at the end of june,5 weeks virtually constant rain...but then the rhubarb loved it so its not all bad news...

[Alison]

Not looked at my main crop yet but my outdoor earlies were a lower yield than usual. The ones of the same type in the polytunnel were much better so I'm putting it down to the lack of water early on. Am hoping that the main crop ones fair better as they've had so much more water.

[scarletrunner]

Same with my kestrel.emptied the small bag and got 8.25lb.from one seed potato.Yours look ready for harvest?

[scarey55]

I have had loads of really big potatoes - big enough to use as baking potatoes, I planted Charlotte, Rosabelle and Mona Lisa. I think this has been a really good year and the gardener on Jeremy Vine's programme was saying about it too.

[arpoet]

I have had very low yealds on all varieties of early and second early. Just got cara left in the gound to harvest in a few weeks time, but it looks as though we will only just get the value in tatties that we paid for seed.
Roger

[Creemteez]

Fab quantities and sizes in both my Pentland Javelin and King Edwards! I lifted three plantsworth of Pink Fir Apple yesterday and got about 12lb!!!! Some of them are HOOGE with loads of big fat legs. The only problem has been the fact that I did not earth up some of them sufficiently so have actually lost quite a few King Edwards to "greening". Still it's a lesson learned for next year. Generally though, a terrific year.

[Snadger]

Yep, good year for my spuds as well. The Duke of York earlies and Kestrel 2nd earlies have all been large spuds..............and plenty of em. (Thats probably why i grow these two varieties EVERY year!)

If the maincrop Cara's and Culltra's are as good at the bottom as the tops are, I'll be well happy!

[Thelma Sanders]

I had a low yield on the Pentland Javelins but we had drought in the SE. The Ambos which I'm lifting now have a really good yield and lots of bakers

[Jono]

Not dug up any maincrop yet, but my earlies were poor this year. I grew Swift, but the plants died off very early. The ones I have harvested were delicious, but few and far between compared to past years. Reckon it was the dry weather.

[Potstubsdustbins]

Jono, Swift are very susceptible to dry weather mainly because of their fast rate of growth.


Colin

[solway cropper]

A poor year for me with yields below average. We'll probably have enough to last into November but no longer. Still, seven months supply of fresh, organically grown spuds from my small plot seems a reasonable result.

[Florence Fennel]

First time in the ground for me with International Kidney. Let's just say they weren't very good.

[FionaH]

I have had a huge amount of spuds. First time with Pink Fir Apple and I have loads of em

[Aberdeenplotter]

Yep, good year for my spuds as well. The Duke of York earlies and Kestrel 2nd earlies have all been large spuds..............and plenty of em. (Thats probably why i grow these two varieties EVERY year!)

If the maincrop Cara's and Culltra's are as good at the bottom as the tops are, I'll be well happy!

Same here Snadge with DOY and Kestrel. Can't grow Cara though. Last time I tried the slugs had a whale of a time. Have since used nematodes mind but not trying Cara again for that reason.

I'm growing Sarpo Mira as my maincrop. Although blight was looking like ravaging every spud in sight roundabout till the tops were taken off them, the sarpos are still looking so fresh and extremely vigorous.