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When to pick potatoes!

  • 11-07-2015 10:45am
    #1
    evolving_doors
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    Ok I read a few gardening forums (I'm not a farmer just a small garden patch of spuds) there's varying opinion on when to pick the spuds so I said I'd ask the experts. I'm only picking to eat not to store for long term, so I'm looking for the tastiest time:)
    So...
    1. When the flowers appear
    2. When the flowers die off
    3. When the whole plant dies off
    4. Depends on the variety (but I can't remember what the heck I planted!)


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  • #2
    Sam Kade
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    There are early and mid season varieties, you can dig the earlies in May June depending when you planted them and the main crop is usually harvested in sept oct.


  • #3
    Deub
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,442 ✭✭✭Deub


    I don't know if it is the same here in Ireland but in France we start harvesting the first potatoes when the first flowers appear.
    However to keep them for winter, we harvest them when the plants have been dead for around 2 weeks (so usually at the end of August)


  • #4
    Belongamick
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 169 ✭✭Belongamick


    Tradition in Mayo I believe was to have the first of the spuds dug on 'Garland Sunday' in preparation for 'Reek Sunday' which was the last sunday in July - the day you climbed 'The Reek' or Croagh Patrick.


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