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how long can I leave my 'taters?

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how long can I leave my 'taters?
« on: June 22, 2011, 21:44 »
First time tater grower and we put in 'wilja' on the advice of one of the site old boys back in march...(good choice, :tongue2:).....I dug the first last week,they were hens egg size,however dug another couple of plants tonight and they are well on the way to baking potato size :unsure:.......Given that it's going to take quite a few weeks to munch through the entire row should I leave them in the ground..(and risk them getting huge!)....or dig them all now and store??.
As a tater newbie any help not to waste my crop much appreciated :)
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Re: how long can I leave my 'taters?
« Reply #1 on: June 22, 2011, 22:02 »
Immature spuds will not store well.

I'd dig a few to keep you for a week or so, the rest I'd let grow & enjoy the baked spuds.
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Re: how long can I leave my 'taters?
« Reply #2 on: June 22, 2011, 22:24 »
I grew Wiljas last year and the year before.
Leave them in to fully mature. They are a great great spud but need time to mature in the ground.

Leave them be until they have been in the ground for at the very least 16 weeks.
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Re: how long can I leave my 'taters?
« Reply #3 on: June 23, 2011, 06:08 »
Thanks,....I'll leave and dig as we need them :)
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Re: how long can I leave my 'taters?
« Reply #4 on: June 23, 2011, 12:30 »
I have got some king edwards and morford.  One variety has flowered with white flowers and one is just starting with purple ones.  Which variety is which and when to I pick them
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Re: how long can I leave my 'taters?
« Reply #5 on: June 23, 2011, 13:08 »
Sorry to butt in!! I have grown three rows of new potatos. Am digging up as needed, but obviously, thats a lot of tatas!! Will they just keep growing like maincrop would or do i have to get them out in a certain time??

Do they store like maincrop also?? :wacko:
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Re: how long can I leave my 'taters?
« Reply #6 on: June 23, 2011, 13:08 »
The Potato Council Database tells me that K.E. have violet red flowers, so that' s no doubt your purple ones

http://varieties.potato.org.uk/display_description.php?variety_name=King%20Edward

They are a maincrop variety, so you leave then in for as long as takes, i.e. until the foliage starts to die down.

I've never heard of Morford & neither have the Potato Council.
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Re: how long can I leave my 'taters?
« Reply #7 on: June 23, 2011, 13:11 »
Quote from: gowing238 on June 23, 2011, 13:08
Sorry to butt in!! I have grown three rows of new potatos. Am digging up as needed, but obviously, thats a lot of tatas!! Will they just keep growing like maincrop would or do i have to get them out in a certain time??

Do they store like maincrop also?? :wacko:

They will keep growing, and store, but generally for not as long as maincrop as they want to get off to an early start!
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Re: how long can I leave my 'taters?
« Reply #8 on: June 23, 2011, 13:16 »
Quote from: davidmw on June 23, 2011, 12:30
I have got some king edwards and morford.  One variety has flowered with white flowers and one is just starting with purple ones.  Which variety is which and when to I pick them

Morford not on the European database either :wacko:
were they perhaps Marfona....maincrop with white flowers?  :unsure:
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Re: how long can I leave my 'taters?
« Reply #9 on: June 23, 2011, 13:17 »
Those were my thoughts.
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Re: how long can I leave my 'taters?
« Reply #10 on: June 23, 2011, 15:52 »
Quote from: mumofstig on June 23, 2011, 13:16
Quote from: davidmw on June 23, 2011, 12:30
I have got some king edwards and morford.  One variety has flowered with white flowers and one is just starting with purple ones.  Which variety is which and when to I pick them

Morford not on the European database either :wacko:
were they perhaps Marfona....maincrop with white flowers?  :unsure:

Funny how only part of a name can get eroded from labels  ;)
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Re: how long can I leave my 'taters?
« Reply #11 on: June 23, 2011, 17:41 »
Quote from: gowing238 on June 23, 2011, 13:08
Sorry to butt in!! I have grown three rows of new potatos. Am digging up as needed, but obviously, thats a lot of tatas!!

All depends on the length of the rows and the appetites of the slugs!
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Re: how long can I leave my 'taters?
« Reply #12 on: June 23, 2011, 17:52 »
I've harvested Charlotte in the following spring with remarkable success ...  :blink:
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