Good year for spuds? What about the flavour?

[arpoet]

I have not dug up any yet as we are having a new kitchen fitted and have not got much space to prepare food. However, to improve flavour i always dig up the day before they are needed and leave em to dry off first.
Roger

[Jeanied]

That is what is confusing me - in past years I always used to pull them up and cook them straight from the plot - I have never found them to be so watery and tasteless before!

[Farmer_Gyles]

i dont remember ever seeing so much greenery on my spuds .... i had a furtle last week in a sack and yield was poor .... i'm going to wait a bit longer and see what happens ....

[Tripmeup]

Similar to others, my main crop (Desiree) seems to be doing better than the 2nd earlies ( British Queen)

[CimaDirapa]

So far:

Outdoor strawberries in big planters = Nice fragrance but no flavour at all
My dwarf early cherry=slightly sweet but nothing like last year.

Yep, too much rain in the wrong time+little sunshine=less sugars =me upset

[Jeanied]

Another reason for the summer blues ... darn it.

[Alison]

However, to improve flavour i always dig up the day before they are needed and leave em to dry off first.

I find that the nicest potatoes in the world are first earlies dug up and cooked within half an hour of harvesting, they're definitely nicer that way than left. Do cure main crop though as I want to store them.

[Neil Spencer]

Contrary to some, I'm getting a bumper harvest of foremost 1st early (last 2 weeks) and Charlotte 2nd earlies. Awesome flavour and really creamy too. Yield my best yet. At least 20 pots per plant. Big contrast to last year when only got half as many spuds and they fell apart in the steamer. Helps being in the south east corner perhaps? I think the rain has really had a positive impact on them this year.

Is it when the spuds crumble even part cooked when they have not had enough water?

[cafecreme]

Dug up my first ever potatoes, yesterday - Sharpe's Express. They were delish boiled with butter and salt and pepper, but I've never had them straight out the ground before so I'm not an expert taster! Only got about 6 small ones off the one plant, so I don't know whether that's a good yield or not... we're not massive potato consumers and there are plenty more to dig up so I'm not too upset.

[Qzy]

I love Sharpe's Express but they take a few weeks longer than, say, Swift or Foremost for me