Early Pots when to pick

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Early Pots when to pick
« on: June 14, 2006, 08:14 »
Is there an easy way of telling when early and main crop pots are ready to harvest other than digging them up

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« Reply #1 on: June 14, 2006, 08:28 »
earlies - when the flowers open
maincrop - when the foliage dies back

at least i think that's the rules. I've been cheating and digging up some of my earlies already since I planted back in March.
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« Reply #2 on: June 14, 2006, 08:59 »
Ive been digging earlies for 2 weeks now. I tend to pull back some of the soil with my hands and when I see tubers I start to dig.
With maincrop they can be left till the foliage completley goes but keep a lookout for blight.

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« Reply #3 on: June 14, 2006, 16:20 »
What about second earlies, do you dig them as earlies i.e. when they flower, or wait til foliage dies like maincrop?  I thought the international kidney I'd bought were earlies, then realised they are maincrop here in England, so I haven't actually got any earlies, just second earlies!!!

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« Reply #4 on: June 14, 2006, 17:31 »
i've read that 2nd earlies should be treated like main crop but I guess you have to treat them as the gap inbetween earlies and maincrop  :roll: These potatoe variaties are confusing.

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« Reply #5 on: June 15, 2006, 08:43 »
Not very scientific but I go onto my second earlies as soon as the earlies are finished :D

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« Reply #6 on: June 15, 2006, 19:40 »
that's not much help if you haven't got any earlies olde9856!!!!  Dug up one plant tonight with another one that self planted from last year.  the self planted one was a red king edward, and although the potatoes weren't very big, there were 19 of them on there!!!  So we had a nice meal tonight!!!

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« Reply #7 on: June 16, 2006, 08:07 »
Try the same idea of moving some of the soil by hand and if tubers are showing begin digging if not recover and try again in a couple of days.

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« Reply #8 on: June 16, 2006, 22:05 »
I heard the flowering thing for earlies too. Planted mine late though cause of the wet on my heavy clay soil! So I'll have to wait a bit longer for the tatties.



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