Vive la difference

[roitelet]

Somewhere I posted the result from 4 plan of seed potatoes, Charlotte but I can’t find it. Anyway, on the 19th March all my seed potatoes went in with irrigation hoses used once a week for an hour if we hadn’t had 10mm of rain in 7 days. There were 4 tubers left over and they were planted with out hoses and watered from time to time. From the 4 plants the yield was 4.5 kilos. I have just dug the first 4 plants that were planted with hoses and the yield was 7.5 kilos. There would have been a few more if some pesky rodent hadn’t eaten them!!!!!

[burnie]

I do like a trial that works, the farmers round here are always watering the tattie fields

[Bren In Pots]

Does go to show the benefits you get from watering potatoes.

[Chippy Minton]

Earlies have been disappointing this year. Wet, then dry, then sharp frost set them back, then dry again. Yields low and a lot of split tubers presumably due to variable levels of water. Still, the maincrops are looking healthy and the water availability has settled back to a good old North-Western "lots"!

[Nicos]

We didn't water our Charlottes at all even though we had alternating heatwave and torrential rain.
They are foury...wish we'd watered them now!

[Penellype]

Earlies have been disappointing this year. Wet, then dry, then sharp frost set them back, then dry again. Yields low and a lot of split tubers presumably due to variable levels of water. Still, the maincrops are looking healthy and the water availability has settled back to a good old North-Western "lots"!

Same here - earlies disappointing in general, main crop looking much healthier, although no harvest yet to prove it.