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So, last year towards the end of what j knew as the growing season, I stumbled across autumn planting seed potatoes. I set about finding out a little but about potatoes, and I decided to dig in some of the lawn with tyres to hold the compost. We rather fondly call them the potatyres :-)
So anyway, I saw them start to grow, added a new tyre on the top of each, half filled it with more compost, waited for the to grow more and filled up the second tyre to the top. They grew loads, but the frost hog hard and they foliage never flowered and just withered and died. I did have a good rummage to see if I could see any spuds but alas there was nowt. I just thought winter spuds weren't really suited to the NE Scottish climate!!
So this year I had planned to put carrots in the tyres. Not quite the same ring to it, but I'd pulled out all the surface remnants and decided to go ahead a couple of weeks later.
Then low and behold, the potatoes started again!! I suppose I never dug them out. That must have been towards the beginning of May that I noticed them and now they are going mad!!:
(Please excuse my lawn. I've only just moved here properly and I'm still moving stuff. Life is a bit busy at the moment!)
So, I suppose the question is, taking the NE climate into account, when roughly will they be ready? Ill be honest. I don't have the packet, but here is a link to where they were from...:
http://ben-reid.co.uk/new-potatoes-i...for-christmas/
Hopefully someone can give some insight. I'm also a bit worried they will be rubbish as they've been in he ground so long!!!
Gemma.
So anyway, I saw them start to grow, added a new tyre on the top of each, half filled it with more compost, waited for the to grow more and filled up the second tyre to the top. They grew loads, but the frost hog hard and they foliage never flowered and just withered and died. I did have a good rummage to see if I could see any spuds but alas there was nowt. I just thought winter spuds weren't really suited to the NE Scottish climate!!
So this year I had planned to put carrots in the tyres. Not quite the same ring to it, but I'd pulled out all the surface remnants and decided to go ahead a couple of weeks later.
Then low and behold, the potatoes started again!! I suppose I never dug them out. That must have been towards the beginning of May that I noticed them and now they are going mad!!:
(Please excuse my lawn. I've only just moved here properly and I'm still moving stuff. Life is a bit busy at the moment!)
So, I suppose the question is, taking the NE climate into account, when roughly will they be ready? Ill be honest. I don't have the packet, but here is a link to where they were from...:
http://ben-reid.co.uk/new-potatoes-i...for-christmas/
Hopefully someone can give some insight. I'm also a bit worried they will be rubbish as they've been in he ground so long!!!
Gemma.
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