I'm off to harvest potatoes...wish me luck

[chriscross1966]

Going to go and dig the potato swamp out leaving just the Sarpo's and PFA's probably...

Annoyingly last night discovered that the TPS raised Jayblu has no tolerance of tuber blight.... stinking tuber for the lose I'm afraid....... hopefully more of the crop has survived though.... Did have a lumper last night as chips, it was quit nice I thought... though lumpy and hard to prepare....

[chriscross1966]

[goodlife]

Good luck!

I'm hoping that this rain will stop for day or two..at the moment its too wet to lift anything up  ::)

[Debs]

I grew my potatoes in patio bags to deter the slugs

I harvested Anya's today & from 3 seed potatoes I got 3lb 2.6oz yield ( weighed them on digital scales  ;)

Debs

[artichoke]

My potatoes are mostly rubbish and very disappointing. Small and slugged, with some rot. Most disappointing. I grew Charlotte and Desiree, usually very successful. Have not got them all up yet, but I expect them to be all the same.

My best were a group of volunteer Charlottes which looked so good I left them, and eventually dug up a heap of large smooth potatoes miles better than the ones carefully planted this spring in soggy heavy ground. Second best were about six sprouting Charlottes I planted experimentally around last October and produced a good early yield of respectable tubers.

Is this telling me something?

[chriscross1966]

Well first signs aren't great.... everythign had got slugs, the Fortyfold and King Edwards lost thir biggest tubers to blight...

SO far lifter:

Jayblu: Grown from TPS, very blight susceptible but less attractive to slugs than Salad Blue so I will keep trying with it next year... if I've got a slug-ignored BLue second early I'll be chuffed....
Fortyfold: Ancient heritage potato, no blight resistance, moderate slug damage
Highland Burgundy Red: BLight knocekd down the foliage so I removed it, crop a bit small, a fair amount of slug damage.
King Edward: hauls suffered badly from blight, lost a few tubers to it too, a lot of slug damage.
Lumper: Not a massive yield cos grown from microtubers, but enough to try, some to keep for seed and a few to share onwards. Interesting when fried.
Edgecote Purple: not too much damage, but crop not huge due to weedkiller contamination

Still to come out:
Cara (looks to be resisting blight)
Sarpo Mira (looks pretty good ATM)
PFA (starting to blight, though should be ok for a while yet)
Yetholm Gypsy (might be bad, lifted a plant yesterday and the whole crop of tubers were either blighted or slugged to uselessness)
Congo: starting to blight but need as long as I can let them have
Negresse: ditto
Russian BLush (another TPS, hoping they've survived.

There are also some random INternational Kidney, Pentland Javelin and Swifts in  the far end they didn't grow much, will have to see what's under the weedkiller-damaged plants....

[Debs]

Remainder of Anya's (after using some for Sunday lunch) harvested yesterday

[goodlife]

They are looking good!
Did you put all the best ones on top of the bowl..? ;) ;D

[Debs]

 ;D - no they were all good - probably the only success so far  :-\

[Robert_Brenchley]

I cut all my potato tops down due to blight. Negresse has some small but usable tubers, but a firkle under the Vitelotte didn't turn up anything at all.