I let the skins harden in the trays and then separated the smallest from the biggest, we eat the smallest first, then bag in brown potato bags for storage and then for the table.
I’ve still to harvest late crop…
Should be self sufficient in spuds 
this year 
. They taste great.
Most potatoes grown commercially are sprayed at least twice if not more with fungicide, if needed insecticide, and at the end herbicides to kill off the holm to ease digging. I don’t want that in my spuds.
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That lot would keep us going for the next five years! 
Haven’t weighed them yet. The first earlies yielded +/- 17 lbs +/- 8kg hopefully the second earlies double that and the lates the same but bigger spuds.
So hoping for +/- 50-60lbs - 30 odd kgs, to be fully self sufficient. If I have any leftover for seed potatoes lll be happy. We don’t eat much rice or pasta.
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Time to get them up.
Amend the soil, seeing the onions the soil looks like it’s seriously lacking nutrients.
This is what I’d do. Put a handful of organic fertilizer like this Processing: image.jpg…
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And a handful of blood fish and bone, mixing in well to the bottom of the planter, then water in and plant next crop of…, plenty of things to sow in July
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I did wonder about the soil, it’s pretty much all bagged “compost”. I’ve got a it of home made compost I can mix in. Is it too late for french beans?
French beans go for a dwarf variety and hope for hot weather in September.
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Interesting! Still not managed to get any beans in and we ALWAYS have a hot September. Would i get away with big beans or only dwarf? I’m usually in summer clothes until the end, if not October. I’ll see if I can get some seeds.
Wozza, should I plant the Baz direct or into my cool new seed blocks?
What else would you suggest? I currently have the carpet we pulled up on grass and honestly its nearly ready to plant I think. We have about 3x3 metres there.
Just looked up purslane as have loads in the garden, thought it was doing quite a nice job suppressing more annoying weeds and seems it works well. According to the net I just need to keep away from the actual plants but keeps soil cool and moist between rows. Also discovered it is uber good for you. We’ve just tried some and really nice, will add to salads from now on. Tonight we’ll try it steamed with butter with home made chips and sausages. J jokingly said we could go Scottish and deep fry it. Straight away I thought it would be lovely in tempura! Can’t believe how much free food we have. Sorry chickens its mine 
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You can direct sow, I sow in trays and then transplant into larger ones and then plant out in the garden at this time of year I use them and other plants like beetroot to fill in gaps.
This time of year you can sow
Lettuce, beetroot, carrots, cabbage, kale, kohlrabi, turnips, radishes, pak choi, peas for their shoots or maybe a late harvest, fennel, chard, first early potatoes
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Weighed in at 10.7 kgs +/- 22lbs
with the first earlies, so far harvested +/- 42 lbs / 19kgs
This morning planted multi sown turnips in the containers from whence the potatoes came.
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Did you eat it, be carefully when identifying it as some varieties are toxic
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Hello? Tory? Are you still there?
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Had it steamed last night, as well as fresh tasting in the afternoon and still alive!! How do we tell if its a txic variety???
Surprisingly good harvest from two planters 4.7kgs +/- 8 1/2 lbs of spuds
Now planted with kohlrabi.
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I dug up our small potato patch last week (foliage all dead) and got a reasonably good crop, for me anyway 
. I’ve just been sorting them , size wise, and put them in those brown paper/cellulose supermarket veg bags for storage.
I’ve got quite a few that are too small (15-25 mm) to do a lot with so wondering if they can be used for next years seed potatoes. If thats feasible, whats the best way of storing them? @Wozza probably? think they were Bintje…
I’d cook them in a pan in some olive oil or in the oven with a bit of oil or even boiled, unless there isn’t enough for a portion!
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I did make potato salad with some, but the skins are just a bit too thick.
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Great news, nothing like eating your own produce and the taste just doesn’t compare with bought spuds
This is what I do…
I eat the tiddlers first before they dry out photo
I grow 1st and second earlies, this year Agate and Binje, (Binje being a favorite) also later groping Desire, that I had to harvest this weekend as had a bit of blight, but still had 21kgs +/- 46lbs. Overall harvest +/- 50kgs / 110 lbs.
If I were you I’d eat them all and enjoy. You probably don’t have enough to build up a local strain this year? And not worth the hassle.
I store mine in brown paper bags and keep them in an out house. The first rule of storing potatoes is never wash them before storing!
Now you’re into gardening, what are you planting in the ground freed up?
Here are a few suggestions:
Direct plant Kale, cabbage, broccoli, sprouts etc. or sow, kohlrabi, Pak Choi, spinach, chard, winter radishes, winter lettuce or maybe a cheeky late sowing of carrots, if you go for carrots go for a early variety and keep the ground moist, or even peas for the shoots.
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Thanks @Wozza . Hadn’t thought about what to grow now, I’ve tried carrots in one of my boxes but they sprout, get going and then a bloody slug comes along and scoffs the lot😡. This year I might just dig some home made compost in and cover with cardboard - I’m not really in to winter veg!
I’m going to grow more beetroot next year, that really is far better than shop stuff 
Depending on the soil if heavy I’d just fork it to loosen it up a bit not dig , then cardboard and put a good couple of inches of homemade compost on top and let the worms do the rest. If you like garlic wait until end of October or mid November and plant garlic, harvest mid June early July depending on year and type of garlic.
Late Summer crops now this is a gamble see if you local garden center has any late cucumbers or courgettes, lettuce for sale. This is the last cucumber I planted
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