Small charlotte potatoes

[HKCambridge]

I've just harvested my charlottes (late, I know!) and I have some huge potatoes but also quite a few pea-sized potatoes on the same plants. Ideally of course they'd all grow at approximately the same rate giving me lots of average-size potatoes, rather than some that are too small to use.

How can I avoid this in future? Is it possible they are too close together? Do they need more food? Should I be harvesting them even later? Or is it just inevitable that not all potatoes develop properly?

[rustylady]

Makes no difference what you do, you will always find that this happens. When I dig my spuds, I grade them into different sizes. The small ones cook lovely as "new" potatoes.

[scarey55]

You lucky thing - all my charlotte potatoes are small - still, at least they are edible

[Alice]

You'll always get the wee ones HKCambridge. I harvest them too and use them for potato salad. If you leave them in the soil / compost they will grow and pop up where you don't want them.