[Jamie Butterworth]

A quick newbie question,

My maincrop spuds are flowering, does this mean that they want to be harvested or do i wait until the foliage starts dying back, I just thought it was too early to even consider harvesting main crops, yet some of the books i have read say to harvest spuds when they flower.

[Lardman]

Have you eaten all your FE and SE ?

Have furtle - if its big enough to eat, do just that  If you're planning on storing you really need the skin to have formed so they store better. Mine have been in flower for at least 2 weeks but they'll stay there until I've eaten the FEs 

[Jamie Butterworth]

Never planted any FE or SE, I only did main crops, im hoping to store them fir Christmas dinner

[Lardman]

Id certainly leave them then, 6 months a sack isn't going to do them any good at all and Id be surprised if they not all eaten by December  . If you have enough planted do try them fresh out of the ground, they taste so much better.

Most people put a few FE in next month so they have 'new' spuds for Christmas dinner.

[DD.]

If you're planning to store, do  not even consider lifting spuds until the foiliage dies back. The spuds need to be mature.

[digalotty]

hi jamie i planted some spuds for Christmas last year and they were great just a little smaller than normal but bearing in mind daylight is shorter through winter

[peapod]

If you're planning to store, do  not even consider lifting spuds until the foiliage dies back. The spuds need to be mature.

and there in a nutshell is your answer Jamie 

[Jamie Butterworth]

Thanks guys, well I have a tub of spuds going aswelll which is flowering, but i might tip them out, harvest them (as they are in flower aswell) and eat them fresh, but then put in some Fe's for new spuds for Christmas.