Must be ready soon.

[Jason Cartwright]

I planted some potatoes 1st week of march, in a grow bag. The plants are really tall now but haven't produced any flowers.
The are Red Duke of York and were meant to be first earlies.
Is there anything wrong?

J

[zazen999]

Have a furtle under the soil around the roots and see if there are any potatoes under there.

[Sarico]

i plant them in flower buck in march and i pull some out because i didn't have any flowers and the plants was 3 foot and over tall...every week i pulled one out and the harvest of course was more... my first plant was 150gr and my last one was 400gr... i left some anyway untill they get flowers to see how much i can have from 1 plant but i can tell you that even if they are so small they are so nice and sweet... if they are in different bags just pull one out and even if is not a lot you can have them for dinner....

[alldigging]

Monty Don dug up a plant last night on GW. He only got tiny potatoes but had said he'd normally start digging them up on his birthday (7th July?) He also said they were a bit scabby.

I've got some that have had flowers on for ages so I'm going to have a root as soon as I'm confident of rowing the boat across the plot....

[Thelma Sanders]

My Lady Christl 'should' have been ready 2 weeks ago, but only had a very few tiny spuds when I lifted the first one. Left fo another 2 weeks the crop has been soooo much better.
The cold and wet seems to have slowed them down.

It just means the leeks are still waiting to go in

[Potstubsdustbins]

RD of Y 12ish weeks in a good year, this year is anyone's guess.

Colin

[Bren In Pots]

My pentland javelin have been in for 12 weeks now and normally we'd be eating them by now, but they're still too small

[BUFFS]

its a slow year for tatties,mine sat in their tubs for nearly 7 weeks before showing any growth at all ,so we are looking at our charlotte tatties being ready in august at this rate,but at least they are growing..

[cazp]

I harvested a bucket of duke of york after 12 weeks a week ago and only had a small handfull of spuds - they were so delicious. They needed longer though obviously.

I have some buckets where I am not sure of the sowing date .... was going to wait until they started to die back before harvesting...is this a good or bad idea? These are first/second earlies and some PFA's - I am finding the buckets hard to furtle because there are quite dense roots in there.

[horticultural_hobbit]

Doesn't it depend on what type they are. I've for Maris pipers and king eds; and don't expect to find anything til September. I am bit miserable about my tatos, eighty percent failed due to the rain.

[Jason Cartwright]

This is what my potato plant look like. There are 5 bags under that lot.
The 2 on the right were put in at begining of march and the high winds blew them over slightly.
The 2 on left were put in at begining on April.
I can't remember when i put the middle ones in but they are all getting top heavy and slumping foward now.

Are they alright?

[Florence Fennel]

They look good to me Jason. As long as there is soil/compost up to nearly the top they'll do fine. Well done, you can look forward to a tasty harvest!

[Aberdeenplotter]

RD of Y 12ish weeks in a good year, this year is anyone's guess.

Colin

As Colin implies, this has been an awful season and normal time scales are way off beam. You will get spuds. We just can't tell you when. What we can tell you though is that it is not anything you have done that has caused the lateness, Nature is the master.

[alldigging]

I had a mooch yesterday and found a teeny tiny spud and then a slightly bigger one. So am leaving alone for another week.
I want some home grown spuds soon though!

[redser]

I'm leaving all mine in the ground for as long as the blight will allow. They are all clean so far. Hopefully there's no pest damage underground. Will buy in spuds for now while they are cheap and hopefully have enough from a late harvest to get me through to next year's early earlies. Does it sound like a reasonable plan?