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Don't potatoes need a cold climate?
At the end of last winter I had a large potato which had sprouted so I cut it into pieces, an eye a piece, and planted them around the garden, mainly in pots. Then I forgot about them. They have all sprouted and are growing, above ground at least.
I'm just leaving them alone till September at least. This one is growing in the hydrangea pot. I have no idea when they can be harvested. Somewhere I think I read it is when the plants flower.
It's an experiment and who knows we may have a fresh potato or two some time.
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I think your seasons are like the Algarve season Linda. They seem to grow potatoes over winter. Potatoes usually take twelve weeks from planting to flowering and ready to harvest.
ReplyDeleteThanks Dave. 12 weeks. Good that's perfect
DeleteLook forward to hearing about your progress.
ReplyDeleteOh you'll get lots of boring potato, or not, photos I'm sure
DeleteA friend gave me some tomato seedlings ~ those died, but this huge vine grew, which she thinks may be pumpkin. I'm just letting it grow!
ReplyDeleteI've got pumpkin vines all over the garden too. Can't see any pumpkins but who knows what's hiding there
DeleteI've heard they are really easy to grow, I've never grown them.
ReplyDeleteWe did once before and got a few kilos but they were properly planted. It will be interesting to see these
DeleteWhen I had hungry children living here I grew potatoes
ReplyDeleteYou can harvest anytime and if you do it carefully you can have new potatoes eqrly in the season and later when the foliage dies down you have potatoes to store
Just make sure to keep the soil level over the bulbs so they don’t see any sunshine
Thanks for the advice Angela. I'll try planting some more later , after September, and see what happens
DeleteSomeone advised me (many years ago) to plant a few sprouting Pots in September and that I'd have lovely New Potatoes for Christmas. So I filled a bucket with bought compost, planted the Pots, and waited. They were so tiny I threw them away!
ReplyDeleteI'm surprised yours didn't grow like mad. I wonder what the secret is
DeleteBandicoots. Apparently they are a small animal in Aus that burrows. They can gburrow around under your spud crop eating the tubers and leave the roots alone so from the top you see no evidence of the theft. When we wanted to test spud size we'd make like bandicoots - scrape a small hole beside and under the plant and if you found a decent sized spud pull it out and fill in the hole leaving the plant to grow more or fill out sny too small to steal.
ReplyDeleteBandicooting potatoes.... Big smile!!
Deletehttps://fairywrencottage.com/2020/01/09/bandicooting-potatoes/
ReplyDeleteGood luck with your potatoes.
ReplyDeleteThanks. I need luck. I'm no gardener
DeleteYou gave me an idea. I will try it too.
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