Potatoes and onions - too late?

jprboy

I bought 2 stone of potato seed (British Queens and Sharps Express) earlier in the year and also a bag of onions.

Planted most of them in April and all are growing well but some left over which I didn't get in to the ground.

Could I still sow the remaining ones at this late stage? They're somewhat shrivelled but could still be ok?

fodda

Should be ok with the spuds being as we are still in the winter but too late for the onions.

magicbastarder

was watching gardener's world earlier and monty don mentioned a few things which it was not too late for - and mentioned both spuds and onions.

Goodne

magicbastarder wrote: »

was watching gardener's world earlier and monty don mentioned a few things which it was not too late for - and mentioned both spuds and onions.

- saw that too

Hal Emmerich

Can still buy spuds in some places, your right on the line, stick them down.

Same with the Onions, may not get huge but there nicer small anyway.

You just need a bit of sun then. This has been one stinky month.

kylith

I planted some spuds a few months ago and the directions said that they'd be ready to harvest in 70 days, which is today. I haven't seen any sign of flowering yet, is it too early to harvest so?

Goodne

10 weeks seems a bit early, should take 14 weeks for earlies. I'm not an expert but think you have to wait until after flowering

shawnee

Spuds do not grow or swell until after flowering and should generally be harvested some time after flowering and probably left a bit longer to grow a bit more. Some areas in the South East would have earlies from now but crops in general would be small. Mine have just flowered but wouldn't dream of digging them for at least another two weeks.

Hal Emmerich

I don't pull them untill the leaves start to go yellow.

kylith

Thanks for the advice, I'll leave them where they are so.