THE TATTIES THREAD 2018

I can imagine

Anyhoo...I've boiled the spuds and eaten them and they were amazing, so sweet and tender and tasted so much better than supermarket ones, though that might just be in my head, but I'm 100% certain that they did.

Now, lets hope that Enlarged Lenticels aren't lethal

 

Just harvest the rest of a bag of Winston which have been really good. I still have another 2 bags of these and 2 bags of Swift left to use before I am hoping the outside spuds will be ready (Belle de Fontenay are just starting to flower now so should be ready in a little while).
The soil I used in the bag of Winston was about 50% good garden soil and 50% horse droppings (too mean to use bought in compost and not really necessary as results seem fine). I am wanting to plant some Mange Tout in a big tub and hoping to use the soil out of the bag which grew the Winston. Should this be ok do you think or should I use some MPC compost which I have?

 

Many thanks @JWK, good! no need to use the MPC which is pretty horrid and is a bugg.. to try and water if it gets too dry which seems to happen in the blink of an eye. My Winston have been quite a bit better than the Swift so think I'll just go with Winston next season. All thanks to you JWK as doubt I would have tried these without you having said you used them for the earliest variety.

 

Checked on a tub of the Nicola this morning, which seem to be doing OK, going to give the rest of them another 4 weeks and then I'll dig them all up.

 

My earlies are starting to flower , I'll follow the advice and harvest them two weeks after this date .
On my main crop Sarpo Miras the flower heads are just forming . What are the signs for main crop harvesting ?
TIA

 

All my earlies are ready to harvest.

I had a furtle around my spuds being grown for 'heaviest potato' class to reduce them to only one tuber per plant and removed the smallest ones of up to 8ozs, so the biggest ones left insitu should be a decent size by show time.

My 'blight resistant' Sarpo Mira appear to have early blight

 

Might not be popular on an allotment site with crop of blighted Sarpo Mira left to continue growing.

 

I was thinking of it starting with Sarpo Mira, then spread to other spuds, plus to tomatoes including those in adjacent polytunnels and greenhouses. I wouldn't want a crop of blighted spuds left to grow next to my polytunnels of tomatoes.