[rowlandwells]

we decided to lift our main crop potatoes the other day and we thought it a good idea  to cut the tops of first because they where very thick tops  so we spent a couple of hours cutting and clearing the tops well it makes it easy to lift the crop with our tractor and scuffle

so next day we lifted the crop they came out lovely but boy o' boy did we have a crop I couldn't believe it 7 rows we filled 17 compost bags full and I mean full bags bags of potatoes  some spuds weighed nearly 2lbs and after sorting the spuds we had only half a sack of small potatoes and around half a bucket of damaged or bad spuds  its the best crop of potatoes we have ever grew on the allotment the variety was Cara when I loaded the bags on our trailer to take home the trailer tyre's where like pancakes 

I thought with all that dry spell we would end up with a few bags of small potatoes how wrong I was I made a potato storage box 2 years ago  and last years crop filled the box just over half full this year the box is full and 4 bags I cant get in the box so it looks like we won't be going short of potatoes this year 

[Kleftiwallah]

Good to hear of your spud crop rowlandwells.
To a much lesser degree, we found the same.  Our varieties were Kesterl and King Edwards.

Cheers,  Tony.

[snowdrops]

Well done, the rains we got late on must have done the trick for you

[rowlandwells]

the only thing I forgot to mention I sowed green mustard [mustard brown] in the autumn last year and ploughed it in to overwinter prior to my spring plantings and I believe although we had some potatoes with small holes the majority we good so probably the mustard did some good ?

[snowdrops]

I think mustard is one of the recommendations for eel worm also the dry summer & no blight will have helped you this year

[Tenhens]

You must have had our harvest!  Very poor this year due to the heat and lack of rain.  Have been growing Charlotte's for the couple of years in bags at home, plenty of watering a reasonable harvest.

[Potty Plotty Lotty]

Great harvest here too which surprised me. I did make an effort to water but was still unsure if I watered enough. Lack of blight as mentioned above also played in my favour.

Ambo as usual were great and Pink Fir Apple (first time of growing) were awesome. Not so impressed with some other new varieties I tried out.

[Snowboar]

I also had best crop ever with first early and second earlies then sow mustard after dug in after 8 week the ground is spot on now gonna lime then garlic I think weather helped keep slug damage down aswell 😀👍