THE TATTIES THREAD 2018

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    Got a second blightwatch warning yesterday :yikes::yikes: and a third one today :yikes::yikes::yikes:
     
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      Blightwatch was never the same after Pamela Anderson got sprayed with Bordeaux mixture :sad:
       
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        Which one is she?

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          The one with the big potato apples :phew:
           
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            My two rows of taters have started flowering. Does that mean they are ready to pick? I thought id got desirees and wasnt expecting them to be ready so soon.
             
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              Snorky those are looking good mate...can't give you advice on the picking because I don't grow as you know but you have done well and this weather looks like it's been a bonus to you [​IMG]
               
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                They look good but give it another 4 weeks at least but it does depend on when you planted?

                Because Desiree are main-crop, that means they 'bulk up' later (than earlies). So there will be tiny tubers underneath the soil right now but they need time to develop.

                Main crop varieties will give a bigger crop later compared to earlies.
                 
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                  I am growing spuds in containers , I have not done this for about 8 years . The tip I got for harvesting earlies , was two weeks after flowering . Presume that means about two weeks after the flowers have died back. So I am expecting late June for my crop.
                  I am growing Sarpo Miras as a main crop. What are the signs for when these are ready for harvesting ?
                   
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                    If you want to store them Snork, leave them in for 2 weeks after the haulms have dropped so the skins harden :)
                     
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                      I start counting as soon as they flower.

                      You can always have a furtle - carefully scrape away a little soil to have a butchers at the developing tubers. Eat them when they are small for best taste :)
                       
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                        My spuds needed a mounding up sometime last week and I didn't do it for some reason. Js theremany restrictions as towhen it's too late? They don't have flowers.

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                          Should be fine as long as the light hasn't got to the tubers:)

                          Reminder here...

                           
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                            Thanks for the advice folks :)
                             
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                              Just got my 8th blight alert.
                               
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                                Hell I've had 6 as well! Nowhere near any of my spuds being ready apart from the ones in bags in the greenhouse are maybe a goer in a couple of weeks. It's been such odd weather here, baltic until May and then not a drop of rain and really hot since about the 7th. Most of my spuds are way behind and I am having to water 24/7. At this rate ALL my spuds including my 1st earlies will get blight:wallbanging:
                                 
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