Really poor potato harvest

[treepixie]

i purchased a bag of seed potatoes reduced to 50p have put them im in potato sacks and they are going great, loads of leaves and just starting to flower, will be intresting to see how many spuds i actually get

[hamster]

At the moment I daren't look, but I'm glad to have read this. My potatoes are charlotte. In the last couple of days I've decided to water everyday with the water from the dishes to try and bump them up. I've got 6 plants and they are massive. As someone else said my toms are going well, just hope they keep it up its normally the other way round in my garden, good potatoes and poor toms.

[Alison]

My earlies have been fine but they have been watered a bit as they were grown in the polytunnel. My main crop aren't putting as much top growth on as they had this time last year which I find a bit concerning but like most of the rest of you I have no water to spare to water them and we're desperately short of rain round here. Will have to see.

[FionaH]

So glad I am not alone on this

I have about half the amount of spuds per plant that I had last year. Mind you it rained constantly here last summer so I am not complaining really

[The Large One]

This is our first year of growing potatoes, so i have now gauge to compare too but i was expecting a few more from what i have cropped but in no way am i dissapointed with them
2 plants will do 2 meals and i likes me spuds so i would say 6 - 8 fair size golf ball to apricot sized tubers per plant

[Caro]

This is the first year I've grown spuds - I harvested my Vales Emerald a couple of days ago. No flowers, and the haulms weren't obviously dying back, but they'd been planted 14 1/2 weeks previously and I gather that 13 weeks should be enough?

They were in a potato growing sack and I think there were 4 seed potatoes planted in there.

I had lots of potatoes, it seemed, but most were embarrassingly small. Total crop was about 500g. I guess I should have waited?

My charlottes, which were planted at the same time, are still snugly in their bag - think I'll give them another couple of weeks.

Confusingly (for me, anyway) one of my maincrop bags (roosters) has started to flower, but they shouldn't be anywhere near ready yet?

And the rain we've had today should mean I don't have to water ANYTHING for ages and i now expect plump veg

[SarzWix]

After furtling around in all my containers, it seems like the Charlottes are coping best with the lack of water. The yields still aren't huge, but it's noticeably more than the others.

[cazp]

Hi,
I posted another thread about my spuds which I managed to get much better results from after waiting an extra week from the first furtle .... Its the first time I have grown them so I didint know what a "normal" harvest is - I thought the 750g yield I furtled today was good and the plants are still growing - but I cant see having myself getting 1-1.5kg per plant average reported above (this particular sack had 4/5 seeds in).. as this is my first year of growing spuds any edible result is good for me and I thoroughly enjoyed my little harvest.

[solway cropper]

cazp, If these are normal size potato growing sacks I found that 3 plants per sack actually gave the highest yield but you obviously need more sacks, more compost and more space if you do that.

[Lazgaot]

A really interesting point is that the wild tatties from last year have survived the snow and frosts and have produced significantly more potatoes this year. My purchases from Tattieman next year are Charlotte and Sante. I've got some Maris Pier in at the moment but I'm not expecting much.

Tattieman,when should maincrop King Edwards and Isle of Jura be ready for lifting if they were planted at the end of March?

[weekendwellies]

I have so far lifted only 2 plants and was disappointed with the amount that each gave, only half a dozen moderately sized spuds and a few grape sized on each.
I thought it was just me, but maybe, just maybe it was the seed potatoes being sold this year that just havent done so well. I got mine from Wilkos.

[jacob]

Very poor yields from my tatties, but the bonus has been that they've been very tasty this year!

[tattieman]

A really interesting point is that the wild tatties from last year have survived the snow and frosts and have produced significantly more potatoes this year. My purchases from Tattieman next year are Charlotte and Sante. I've got some Maris Pier in at the moment but I'm not expecting much.

Tattieman,when should maincrop King Edwards and Isle of Jura be ready for lifting if they were planted at the end of March?

The way this year is going makes it hard to say when they will be ready.
I just normally look for the shaws dying off with the maincrops as we usually store them. There should be something there from mid August onwards. It depends how big you want them.

[Bramble_killer]

we harvested the first pot yesterday so they have been watered quite regularly but still only 1.4kg from seed potatoes. These were arran pilot.

[sewer rat]

Yesterday I lifted 4 plants for a look-see and got almost identical results -
Red Duke of York - 2 plants, 3.95kg, no small tubers.
Highland Burgundy - 2 plants 4.15 kg, a few small tubers.
I'll be satisfied if the rest produce the same - have 30 plants each of Red Duke, Highland Burgundy, Edzell Blue, Rooster and Kerrs Pink.