Main Crop Potatoes starting to flower

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Eblana

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Main Crop Potatoes starting to flower
« on: June 27, 2014, 20:15 »
Help,

My main crop Potatoes which only went in the last week in March are full of lush green growth and are now starting to flower - surely this is far too early.  I have spent half the afternoon going around picking off the flower buds to try to put more growth back down into the tubers under the ground. 

Is there anything else I can do to help get better potatoes?

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Re: Main Crop Potatoes starting to flower
« Reply #1 on: June 27, 2014, 20:35 »
Give them a good soak now they are in flower, and a bit of a feed with something like chicken manure pellets, as they are now making tubers down there in the dark

Don't worry, the flowers will not detract from the crop size.
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Re: Main Crop Potatoes starting to flower
« Reply #2 on: June 27, 2014, 20:56 »
Just let nature take its course and let them get on with it. They know best.

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Re: Main Crop Potatoes starting to flower
« Reply #3 on: June 28, 2014, 05:29 »
It's great when the potatoes flower - interesting to see the different plant heights and flower colours.

Sit back and dream of new potatoes freshly cooked with a knob of butter.
Patience.  ;)
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Re: Main Crop Potatoes starting to flower
« Reply #4 on: June 28, 2014, 10:49 »
Mine flowered some time ago and now have crab apple type thing on them - The earlirs are turning up their toes, I planted them on the 16th March and they were well chitted.


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