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Anyone have any showing yet? Even just a bit!!!

Mean outside planted. Put first ones in March time, when we had a weekend of sun.

Also wondering if it will be a bad year again due to lack of rain...

I planted my outdoor spuds in February and I noticed they were starting to come up when I looked two days ago, strangely, the Sante which are an early maincrop are doing better than the earlies. Hoping to eat my first earlies from the polytunnel in the next week or so, I had a sneaky peek under the mulches and there are little spuds there about bantam egg size

Planted first earlies in buckets,2nd week in March,earthed up twice so far.

diggernotdreamer wrote: Hoping to eat my first earlies from the polytunnel in the next week or so

Aha, beat you ..we had our first cook yesterday. 4 the size of pullets eggs and lots of smaller ones but they're growing fast now that the overnight temperatures are a bit better, so I expect to dig a root for every meal from next Sunday onwards.

The outdoor ones are now starting to pick up a bit, they are very late though.

Planted mine on St Patricks day and covered them with black plastic

They've been up for a couple of weeks now and showing good growth

I pull back the plastic on clear nights to protect from frost and will continue to do so till the beggining of june

MC



earlies

I didn't want to have to do this, but on behalf of all the lady gardeners (?) here goes

Are you still getting frost? in May?

vancheese wrote:Are you still getting frost? in May?

Only if I forget to cover them one night

Seriously though,probably not, but on a clear still night I'd sooner cover up than see all my work spoiled

ner cast a clout til may is out and all that

*edit-Oh yeah we had a hail shower yesterday...CLIMATE CHAOS!!!*