What Is Average Weight

[cilla]

I was wondering what is the average weight of potatoes harvested from one seed? At the moment I am getting 350 grams from one seed from pentland javelin and Arran pilot. Planted in small black potato bag.

[sparrow100]

It can depend a lot on how you feed them and how long they are left before harvest. I get 700g-1kilo from spuds in bags. 3 Dunluce in a bag planted early March (I think) and harvested early June gave me just under 2.1kg minus the real tiddler spuds. Charlottes usually do a bit better but take longer.

[cilla]

I have Charlottes as well but they are just about flowering. I also have fir Apple but I know not to harvest them yet. Ok sounds like I am harvesting too early but the leaves are turning yellow.

[Snoop Puss]

Do you get lots of small ones or just one or two fair-sized ones? If it's lots of small ones, then maybe they need to be left longer.

I've been growing Arran Pilot in the ground. I'm now getting a kilo or so for each seed potato. The early harvests were very small, but as we've so many potatoes this year, I didn't mind picking them. They went in on 26 March.

I'm also growing Dunluce and, again, in the ground (planted 28 March). The harvest off the first plants wasn't enormous, maybe 500 g or so, but they'd only been in the ground eight weeks. Now it's quite a bit more, at over a kilo apiece.

I tried growing potatoes in a bag one year and didn't bother again. It was easier, for sure, but the harvest was very small.

[cilla]

Yeah there are small one as you can see. I will wait a little while longer and do the furtle test. If the leaves etc wilt do I just cut them and leave the potatoes to continue to grow?

[Snoop Puss]

I've never had first earlies get to wilting stage, as we eat them too quickly! That said, with other potatoes you can leave it till the leaves die right back before harvesting.

Edited to ask: When did you plant them?

[Vince G]

They look fine to me. We grow quite a few earlies, so started digging them up about 4 weeks ago. The biggest ones were no bigger than a golf ball and a few tiddlers is OK because they get popped in my gob in one!

I don't think you want them much bigger than yours because you'd have to cook them for too long to get them softened in the middle, and if you cook them too long they often get undressed in the pan!