Allotment Gardening Advice Help Chat
Growing => Grow Your Own => Topic started by: SalB on May 30, 2009, 08:51
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Good Morning! Everything is going well for this newbie , no apparent major disasters yet :unsure:
I have a row of charlotte potatoes planted for my earlies and they are just beginning to flower. Do I dig them up when they are flowering nicely or do I wait until the flowers die away?
Had a couple of plants which may have been infected with black leg , got them out and the other plants all seem to be unaffected and doing fine. However , with that in mind I would like to get them up at the earliest opportunity. I'd rather end up with tiny new potatoes than end up losing the crop entirely.
Keeping a close eye on them and as I said they seem to be doing fine and the main crop (maris pipers) also at this time appear unaffected
Thanks in anticipation
Keep smilin'
Sal x
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As said on other threads, have a furtle under the soil & see what's there.
If you don't like what you see, (too small :lol: ), put the soil back & wait a bit longer.
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my Charlottes are also just floweriong now - i had a rummage and they are a little small yet so I'm waiting for a week or so.
The wait is torture! I love Charlottes, so buttery. Mmmmmmm :D