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Growing => Vegetables => Topic started by: Bangbang on July 15, 2012, 08:20:00 pm

Title: Old bag of spuds
Post by: Bangbang on July 15, 2012, 08:20:00 pm
HELP! please! .....plants have flowered, plants dying off, so how long
before I harvest them?........(OH luvs her chips!) ;D
Title: Re: Old bag of spuds
Post by: MAK on July 15, 2012, 08:43:22 pm
You can take them now or leave them a few more weeks until all the follage is dried off. They will swell some more. If you are going to store them then maybe lift early on a dry day, knock off the soil and let the sun dry out the skins. Basically the skins will harden up with age if left in the ground after the plants have died back and a few hours in the sun will ensure you have a dry spud to store.
Enjoy your chips  ;D
Title: Re: Old bag of spuds
Post by: deepinthewoods on July 15, 2012, 08:45:24 pm
are these your competition spuds??? :o
Title: Re: Old bag of spuds
Post by: Bangbang on July 15, 2012, 09:41:05 pm
Cheers MAK !

DITW's, yes they are, not sure if I still qualify...just don't want them to go to waste.
Title: Re: Old bag of spuds
Post by: deepinthewoods on July 15, 2012, 09:45:57 pm
at least weigh them for the sake of the experiment! mine died ::)
Title: Re: Old bag of spuds
Post by: Bangbang on July 15, 2012, 09:58:36 pm
OH told me about that, I said a small prayer for them...

Now lay my spuds to rest
I wish lord you do your best
to make themhappy in your sky
Oven chips please,
We don,t do fries.

And if in time
They make your table
Hose pipe ban is on the label

Amen!
Title: Re: Old bag of spuds
Post by: Beewyched on July 15, 2012, 11:28:27 pm
OH told me about that, I said a small prayer for them...

Now lay my spuds to rest
I wish lord you do your best
to make themhappy in your sky
Oven chips please,
We don,t do fries.

And if in time
They make your table
Hose pipe ban is on the label

Amen!
;D :thumbsup:
Title: Re: Old bag of spuds
Post by: Rosemary on July 16, 2012, 10:11:56 am
OH told me about that, I said a small prayer for them...

Now lay my spuds to rest
I wish lord you do your best
to make themhappy in your sky
Oven chips please,
We don,t do fries.

And if in time
They make your table
Hose pipe ban is on the label

Amen!

 ;D ;D ;D