Foremost First Earlies - A crop at eight and a half weeks

[greenishfing]

I usually get a few potatoes on my foremost at ten weeks but the plants were looking so healthy and I could see flower buds forming at eight and a half weeks (today)

I just had to have a peep.




I just had to dig them up and have a proper look.

We had new potatoes for tea.

[mothhawk]

Wow, lovely! I shall have to go and have a furtle under mine tomorrow!

[Nes]

WOW, you lucky thing! I had a little furtle today, but all I found were tiny marble sized spuds. Gave them a good watering, so will hopefully fatten up soon...

[greenishfing]

I don't know what I've done right this year but some combination of luck and weather seems to have done the trick.

They tasted marvellous.

Another 59 plants to go!

[RobMac]

Well done Greenishfing.I've got flowers heads developing on my first earlies which I have grown in a bag. I never grown them before. What's the optimum stage or time thatbthey should be harvested? Is it before the flowerheads develop or when they die off? Thanks in advance for any advice.