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Potato yield

Yorky · 2011-08-01 09:16:28

I have just finished harvesting Orla first earlies. They were sown on 5th April (not chitted), 25cm spacing in an Autumn-manured raised bed. They were only watered a couple of times as the soil didn't dry out and were fed with comfrey liquid feed once. The total yield from 30 seed potatoes was 19.1kg. According to RHS…

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01-08-2011 10:16am

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Yorky

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I have just finished harvesting Orla first earlies.

They were sown on 5th April (not chitted), 25cm spacing in an Autumn-manured raised bed. They were only watered a couple of times as the soil didn't dry out and were fed with comfrey liquid feed once. The total yield from 30 seed potatoes was 19.1kg.

According to RHS trials - http://apps.rhs.org.uk/planttrials/TrialReports/Potato%20early%202007.pdf - the average yield would have produced 23.25 kg so I suppose the yield was reasonable.

Would anyone like to comment on the above?

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#2 01-08-2011 9:31pm
tenandtracer

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My yields for first earlies are quite a bit down this year (Duke of York, Maris and Bambino). The cool spell from June did not help.

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