fresh new potatoes

[hawthorns]

dug up 3 pentland lustre today. been in for exactly 9 weeks

[rustylady]

Well done you! Enjoy them.

[daisygrubber]

looking good. Enjoy!!

[Florence Fennel]

Very well done - nothing tastes quite like home grown taters.

[The Large One]

well done...
i'm hoping to be on my last bag of shop bought tatties as Rocket seem to be about ready to lift anytime now, managed June to Feb with own spuds last year

[womble]

Not bad at all. What's the rainfall been like where you are, since they were planted?

[hawthorns]

very little rain fall. i watered them once. soil was very dry when i dug them up

[Flummery]

Wonderful. We're going to have our second lot of new potatoes tonight. They've been grown in a big tub in the greenhouse though.

[mrbadexample]

Nice haul.

[Jamesy_uk]

Very nice haul there I am salivating at the thought of my own.
My Aaran pilot's went in about middle of March (gambled on no frost) got about 25 plants in the ground and some are flowering I reckon 2 more weeks and I shall have to start digging

[Jamesy_uk]

I am just tucking in to my first dig of Aaran pilots from my folks garden, a little early to pull up but this particular plant was looking a little sorry for itself so I thought to myself... I should put it out of its misery.

So

My first mainly garden harvest meal of the year ingredients:

Italian Mint - for the tatties
Lemon Thyme - to make herb butter for the chicken breast
Parsely - herb butter
Aaran pilot tatties
Beet leaf spinach
Pea shoots
Grilled Chicken Breast

And I know its personal bias creeping in but it was absolutely bloomin' amazing!

[rth]

i planted my reds the end of march flowers are starting to open when should i harvest ? or should i stagger it

[Jono]

Nice going! The leaves on my swifts are going worryingly brown. Gave them a good water today in the hope of them picking up.

[womble]

Just pulled up a Rocket planted early March I think. The ground was ridiculously dry, I think just enough for a small meal of new pots from one plant. They need another 2 weeks and some RAIN!

[Flummery]

i planted my reds the end of march flowers are starting to open when should i harvest ? or should i stagger it

It depends what they are. Were they sold as Earlies or Maincrop? If earlies, they want about 12 weeks from planting so I'd say end of June. If they are maincrops they want till end August or even September. Many people get early crops by planting under glass but in a garden or allotment plot, particularly with this lack of rain, I wouldn't try and get them out too early. You could try one plant to see but I think they'll be rather titchy just now.