Harvesting More Java Potatoes

 

Todays visit to the allotment was to harvest some more Java maincrop potatoes, indications of a good harvest was good on emptying the contents of the bucket into the 800mm x 800mm plastic tray that I placed on the raised bed to make harvesting easier. 

Harvest from this single bucket was nearly as much as I had from the last two buckets. You really don't know how many spuds you are going to get until you empty the buckets.

What I have found is that there is always one or two seriously large potatoes in every bucket. Gloves laid on the compost for scale. having covered the buckets with one of the trays I'm emptying them into, the soil is dry and the spud come out without too much soil stuck too them. 

Brushing the soil off the potatoes with a 50mm (2") paint brush and stacking them in a tray to dry out in the air before they were taken home and shared with my sister.