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I have been watching my potatoes grow larger and larger over the past few months, and after a quick bit of calculation I reckoned that my Pentland Javelin first earlies had been planted 10 and a half weeks back.
I had been told that the time to harvest first earlies was ten weeks sfter planting as long as they had flowered, so as these had some stunning purple and orange blooms I decided to harvest a sack.
I chose the sack in the poly tunnel - purely because the haulms were starting to flop over and were getting in the way - and broke open the rootball to search for hidden goodies.
Unfortunatly although there were plenty of potatoes, most were about the size of a pea.
I did manage to get about a pound and a half of reasonable size potataoes out, with a couple being about hen egg sized.
My question is - was I just too eager or could it have been down to not watering enough? They got about half a bucket every two or three days, but the compost was still very dry when I harvested.
Something else just occurred to me - a few others on the Forum have reported orange and purple flowers on their Pentland Javelins, but the flowers are supposed to be pure white. We all purchased our tubers from a £store, so maybe these weren't Pentland Javelin at all and therefore maybe not a first early?
Anyone else had this problem?
Andy
I have been watching my potatoes grow larger and larger over the past few months, and after a quick bit of calculation I reckoned that my Pentland Javelin first earlies had been planted 10 and a half weeks back.
I had been told that the time to harvest first earlies was ten weeks sfter planting as long as they had flowered, so as these had some stunning purple and orange blooms I decided to harvest a sack.
I chose the sack in the poly tunnel - purely because the haulms were starting to flop over and were getting in the way - and broke open the rootball to search for hidden goodies.
Unfortunatly although there were plenty of potatoes, most were about the size of a pea.
I did manage to get about a pound and a half of reasonable size potataoes out, with a couple being about hen egg sized.
My question is - was I just too eager or could it have been down to not watering enough? They got about half a bucket every two or three days, but the compost was still very dry when I harvested.
Something else just occurred to me - a few others on the Forum have reported orange and purple flowers on their Pentland Javelins, but the flowers are supposed to be pure white. We all purchased our tubers from a £store, so maybe these weren't Pentland Javelin at all and therefore maybe not a first early?
Anyone else had this problem?
Andy
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