Main Crop Potatoes - any good this year?

My most successful year in ages!

I haven't needed to spray even once with Bordeaux Mixture, nor had to continually carry water to my plot in dry weather, etc. And the reason is I didn't grow any, but we did get loads of spuds when they had vouchers in the Sun (40p) for £5's worth of fruit & veg from Morrisons (down to our last 5Kg from the second time they had the vouchers). My clay soil has now baked solid and if I'd grown spuds I'd be bending my fork prongs trying to get them out the ground.

 

Hmm I harvested my King Edwards a couple of months ago and was getting more than that. Hows the soil? I think you said in another thread there were tree roots in the planting area.

 

I think Maris Peer are second earlies rather than maincrop, so that may explain things ??- although a yield of 300g is indeed very disappointing.

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I never grew Maincrop potatoes this year as last years crops were very dissapointing....This years first earlies pentland javelin potatoes was a success..Also my second earlies Maris peer also gave me a good harvest..I am going to avoid growing maincrop potatoes from now on..

 

My earlys, Charlotte, were superb but the Maris Piper and King Edwards were very disappointing with a yield similar to JWK's experience.

 

My Pink Fir Apples have done really well in full sun, but some that were in part shade cropped less.
I've also grown some of these, not sure on variety, but bright purple when dug.
They also cropped very well, and a good size too.
I think this was from the first root I dug, most of the others were bigger and more of them per root.

 

I never grow earlies,just 2nd earlies.My two main ones are Kestral and Picaso,this year I planted 10 rows,11 plants per row and finished with 4 bags full,approx,200 kilo's.I was very lucky as blight came on site just 3 plots away from me so I chopped of all the tops and took then all up about 2 weeks later,glad to say all were in sound condition.

 

We got about the same as Pete's above per plant. We grew Sarpo Mira due to their claim to be highly blight resistant and I can confirm that we were able to leave ours in the ground long after most of the neighbouring plots had succumb. They are a quite a firm/bland variety - although we rarely eat potatoes plain so not too bad.