First potatoes - anyone else cropping?

Our son has some from his allotment. We were too late for first earlies, but we have beetroot. They’re 10 week from sowing to harvesting, small tennis ball size.
Isn’t it lovely to eat fresh produce.

We’re harvesting rhubarb and the gooseberries are almost ready. Onions romping on this year and the strawberries are delicious………can’t beat a proper British strawberry. 😍

Rhubarb and strawberries at the moment gooseberries nearly ready

J52

Our son has some from his allotment. We were too late for first earlies, but we have beetroot. They’re 10 week from sowing to harvesting, small tennis ball size.
Isn’t it lovely to eat fresh produce.

Yes, first crop last week. ( "Charlotte") Grown in a bag in my unheated greenhouse in the Highlands.

The outdoor spuds ("Estima") are starting to flower so should be ready soon.

Lettuce has been harvested for a week; we've had two ripe strawbs, one each :-)

I've had several pickings from my Salad Bowl lettuces, and the Little Gems are nearly ready. Also two good harvests of spinach. The tortoise gets some of the lettuce mixed in with her weeds and flowers, so I try to grow plenty each year.

We've been using garden lettuce for a couple weeks. Pulled the first of the new carrot crop today, lovely to have some flavour that you don't get from shop ones. Also picked a few Mangetout this morning.
Rhubarb, gooseberries, strawberries and raspberries being used or frozen.
Potatoes are going to be investigated this week, beetroot still a bit too small - golf ball sized.

Jaxjacky

Dinner tonight!

They look amazing, Jaxjacky, I love fresh new potatoes. Enjoy your dinner!

We were a bit late, but Charlottes doing well in the raised beds under straw.

Thanks Grannmarie
These are Casablanca, grown outside down south.

Ooh. I forgot the salad leaves, pea shoots, and chives………been harvesting those for weeks.

I live in Kent. Years ago, I had a farmer friend who lived in West Wales. Every year he would post me a box of the first crop of new potatoes, still with soil on and I have never tasted anything so delicious in my whole life! They were ready weeks before the ones here and tasted so much better.
You can’t beat a Pembrokeshire new potato!

Lunch box cucumbers now being eaten.

🥒

They look really good, Jaxjacky
We’re hoping to start lifting our first earlies on Tuesday. 🤞🤞

Spinach for me and loving it. Meanwhile lots of hedge veg for sale, had potatoes, peppers, beetroot and asparagus.

First new potatoes - food of the gods.

No potatoes for us - insufficient room😢.

But we’ve been eating salads since March, carrots nearly ready, beans flowering, broccoli getting bigger, a sweetheart cabbage ready to pick. Spinach ready. Strawberries being picked for a couple of weeks.

I love the summer!!

Jaxjacky

Thanks Grannmarie
These are Casablanca, grown outside down south.

Ah, the benefits of a milder climate! I'm enjoying Jersey Royals just now, we'll have to wait a wee while for the Ayrshires, which are delicious too. 🥔

As someone ignorant about growing potatoes, how long after you plant the original one is it until harvesting ? I would really like to know because I have quite a few growing interspersed with plants in the back. A year, 2 years?

😄😄😄. nanna you really don’t know do you😄😄

Wait for them to flower leave a couple of weeks then have a dig around and see if you have struck lucky. Don’t be too disappointed if you don’t get many, potatoes need good earth and water to produce anything really.

So from planting to digging say anything from 3-5\6 months.

Thanks for that Whitewavemark2 No, I really didn’t know and some of the plants have re appeared after a year or two. I’m going to dig up some of them now !

Earlies are about 12 weeks nanna8 I planted mine in March.
It’s interesting readying how others are doing, thank you, I hope to lift garlic in the next week, beetroot soon.

I agree, there's nothing like the taste of home grown strawberries, I used to grow them, loved the taste unfortunately so did the birds.

I only looked in a spud bucket because of you op and have enough for three meals for me. I wasn`t expecting anything much, The leaves had gone yellow

I have charlotte and desiree on my allotment, I am going to cut the haulms of the charlottes in a couple of weeks and just leave the potatoes in the ground, they keep well like that. I may do similar before desiree are big, at least that avoids them getting blight. I cut the haulms just below soil surface

Dratted slugs have eaten most of my brassica plugs at home, I have just about salvaged and re-potted enough for me to take to the allotment soon

I have picked, topped and tailed over 20lb of gooseberries from my standard gooseberries at home.

“Dratted slugs have eaten most of my brassica plugs at home, I have just about salvaged and re-potted enough for me to take to the allotment soon

I have picked, topped and tailed over 20lb of gooseberries from my standard gooseberries at home.“

Garlic water has protected my Hostas from slugs. A drenching every couple of days.
It seems to be a good year for Gooseberries, I make jam with mine.