Wow - potatoes

willnbirdie · « **on:** July 13, 2008, 18:16 »

Hi

Yesterday we went and dug some of our earlies took out 2 rows keeping 2 in the ground for 2 to 3 weeks. We are growing pentland javelin and I know they are meant to crop heavy but from two 8.5 ft rows we harvested 31lbs of potatoes. :shock:

Sizes vary - some larger ones, a few a little too large really but lots and lots of perfect size new potatoes - how pleased are we.

There are only 3 of us in our house (one who is only 3 years old) so we had great pleasure in giving some away yesterday - what a fantastic feeling. The hard work is now starting to pay off and we are just so chuffed it's really quite exciting.

the 2 remaining rows, we took some advice on here and have cut the foliage off to stop them getting any bigger and when ready we will dig a few at a time.

cheers

willnbirdie

upert · « **Reply #1 on:** July 13, 2008, 18:33 »

well done. i have pentland javelins too so i'll hope for a bumper crop like yours.

matron · « **Reply #2 on:** July 13, 2008, 18:54 »

Well done you.
You cannot beat eating your own potatoes. We are just harvesting our Pentland Javelin.

upert · « **Reply #3 on:** July 13, 2008, 21:40 »

apart from green potatoes are there any others that could make you ill? ones attacked by something or just too small?

sianb · « **Reply #4 on:** July 14, 2008, 17:10 »

Well done Willnbirdie, weve just dug some of our potatoe,s up today. it,s so satisfying to eat what you have grown .

Sian

durham_lass · « **Reply #5 on:** July 14, 2008, 21:26 »

Can I ask where you got Pentland Javelin from please, seeing as Sunderland is not too far away from me. I dug up a row of earlies recently but didn't get anywhere near that amount. Mine were Maris Piper which I got from B & Q

willnbirdie · « **Reply #6 on:** July 14, 2008, 21:41 »

Hi durham-lass

We got our p-j from the lottie shop on site - I have seen them for sale on the internet but I guess some of the local nurseries would sell them too.

Cheers

willnbirdie

durham_lass · « **Reply #7 on:** July 14, 2008, 21:56 »

THX will have a look around for next year.

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