Potatoes again - planting and harvesting times

Planting, but a good clue for main crop is the foliage dying down.

If you want "new" potatoes you lift before maturity.

potatoes take about four months for earlies from time of planting if you want them smaller you have a furtle about three months to see progress . in the summer they take three months so the warmer the weather the less time they will take simples.

I might as well throw in my fourpenny  worth! 

1st earlies 14/15 weeks after planting
2nd earlies 15/17 weeks after planting
Maincrop 17/20 weeks after planting

More than a tad I should think, here in the warm (not now though!)

My earlies are late if they take 12 weeks. ..........although it's not as important for the others