flowering potatoes

[Eden]

Hi everyone, I put a row of maincrop spuds in about a month ago and are now only about 6-10" out of the ground and they are flowering! Is this bad news? My spuds have always been very well grown before they flower, will I still get spuds from them?
Many thanks
Eden

[g51065]

Dig down and have a look...see if any sizable spuds say hello, if not cover them back up and wait a bit. I prefer not to leave them in the ground untill leaves die of because last time I did this I got more pest damage. Flowering or not didn't seem to make a difference to yield.

[User Removed]

No, It's not really bad news.

Leave them in the ground until the leaves die down if you want pretty big spuds.

However if you want smaller spuds have a dig down and see what there is

[Flummery]

Maincrop shouldn't produce spuds after just a month. It's no problem that they are producing flowers though. You usually wait for the haulm to die back before you dig up maincrops.