New spuds, dig or no dig

lutink

HELP, i have no patience....i planted my new potatoes on good friday and they are flowering, looking great, BUT I WANT TO EAT THEM!
Is it too early for them? should i leave tehm a little longer? or can i dig them, cook them and butter them???:p



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Ken68

Tried mine, lutink, not big enough, eating pasta instead.

Optimisticpair

You could dig up one now. It will be a smaller crop than if you leave it that's all. They're your spuds :rotfl:

frazzbo

Go on, treat yourself. I dug up some last week and they were super-tasty if a bit small. At least I know what I have to look forward to now, it's just a question of how long I can leave them in the ground!!

Smoffi

If you grew them in a raised bed.. then remove some of the side and look at the size.. but they are YOURS... do so as you wish

Just plant more :P

savemoney

According to leaflet I got it says to dig up up 3-4 weeks after flowering. Around 12 weeks after planting spuds

PharmaAl

I've decided to eat mine! I have lots of plants and decided to start to harvest. They were suprisingly big but have been in under fleece since start od March

irishwexford

We dug some up last week, small but very nice. I would rather dig a few up at a time than buy them. We were buying Jersey royals and they were small. Why not try a plant.

Jack's_mummy

You need to "firkle". A very technical term that means stick you hand in under the plant and have a feel around. You can pull out any potatoes you feel but leave the plant there and the small potatoes will carry on growing.

SallyForth_2

Jack's_mummy wrote: »

You need to "firkle". A very technical term that means stick you hand in under the plant and have a feel around. You can pull out any potatoes you feel but leave the plant there and the small potatoes will carry on growing.

That's what I did! I firkled about a bit and found loads of tiddlers, but deeper down there were spuds were a decent size, so I pulled out enough for dinner yesterday.

Does anyone else go around these days with almost permenantly dirty finger nails?

dorisday

lol,had a good laugh about the dirty finger nails, mine are like that most of the time now. Out with friend yesterday (at the garden centre of course) and when she handed her money over to pay for something her nails were all lovely and polished, mine were jagard and dirty!!!! had just done a tiny bit of weeding before we went out and I did wash my hands.:eek: