Re-grown potatoes...

Have you tasted the spuds yet, are they nice?

That's pretty darn good considering that it just came from leaves.

I'm gonna have to give it a try.

I have mentioned doing this in a couple of previous posts as, when I have lifted pots, I've seen tiny ones that I thought, if left to grow, I could get another crop of whatever useable size. Rather then lifting, I was thinking about carefully furtling underneath to get useable ones, then leaving the haulm in place so it can develop these smaller ones - maybe earth up too aferwards? Blow it - I'm going to give it a try  !

If you just grub around - furtle - for potatoes instead of lifting the whole plant, the smaller ones will continue to grow and the roots will have had little disturbance.

Why dig up the plant when you can leave it to grow on until it has finished producing?

Have you tasted the spuds yet, are they nice?

That's pretty darn good considering that it just came from leaves.

I'm gonna have to give it a try.

They were pretty damn good Mrsparkle - very waxy, and didn't split up during cooking! This may have been because they were all quite small tough.

If you just grub around - furtle - for potatoes instead of lifting the whole plant, the smaller ones will continue to grow and the roots will have had little disturbance.

Why dig up the plant when you can leave it to grow on until it has finished producing?

We tried the standard furtle method Kirpi, as we'd cloched the first few plants to bring them on a couple of weeks, and as the ground was as hard as nails (no rain, can you believe it), the soil (hasn't been cultivated for years - maybe 10 even), just didn't afford a decent poke around, and it was all getting a bit tiresome!

Easy answer to your second para though - they're expensive in the shops, get 'em when they're small and beat the rush! Slaughter 'em when they're young...

Furtling in hard ground can't be easy, nor can re-planting your pots afterwards. Maybe others on here with damp ( ) ground will find it easier and have more of an idea if it is worth it?

Furtling in hard ground can't be easy, nor can re-planting your pots afterwards. Maybe others on here with damp ( ) ground will find it easier and have more of an idea if it is worth it?

Replanting was much easier Goosey - straight out with the old, straight in with the new!

We'll be doing this with the 'Charlotte' as well - much easier than furtling, and as they're second earlies, there's nothing to lose!

We have a Patch and a half, and time/work needs to be organised, so we don't piddle about too much, just get the jobs done over a couple of hours each day over the weekend, and an hour a day during the week - that's when we can of course!

Mrs Growster and I have a fine system, and we sometimes meet halfway between the Patch and the plot!