No idea what varieties my spuds are!!!!!!

rosie383

I had all my seed potatoes chitting away happily and had them labelled so I would know. My 3 yr old decided to 'help mummy' and rearranged them all.
So, apart from the very obvious pink fir apple, I have no idea what they were. I know I did rocket, maris piper, arran pilot, charlotte and maybe another type or 2.
Once they were all chitted, I just planted them in the allotment and they are happily growing nicely. Some are about 1' tall, while other are about 4".
No flowers as yet. So, how will I know what are first earlies, main crop etc, so that I harvest at the right time?

tangojulie

As I understand it if they were planted at the same time, the first earlies should flower first, then the second earlies, and so on. So they should identify themselves if you wait long enough.

If you need to know sooner, have a look at the British Potato Variety database http://varieties.potato.org.uk/varietyindex.php%20?page_no=1 which has pictures of the foliage of different varieties. Of course if Tattieman is still around I'm sure he'd identify them straight off - he'd probably tell you who its parents were and what it likes for dinner as well.....

It's a bit late this year, but next year why not write the variety on the potato? I do mine with a Sharpie, writes on anything. In case that sounds too clever I should add that I learned this the hard way after a big mix up a couple of years ago.

Good luck!

rosie383

That's great, thank you. So I just wait and harvest whatever, whenever..... I can live with that.
It would never, in a month of Sundays, occur to me to write on the potatoes. Sometimes it's bleeding obvious and we can't see it. Thanks!!!!!!