When Will Our Potatoes Be Ready To Harvest???

Question

This is our 1st time growing any type of vegetable in the garden so we choose potatoes as we were told they were the easiest of all the vegetable to grow.

We were late planting the seed potato (Beginning of June) but the entire vegetable patch has grown and is tall and green and leafy. No flowers have come out yet and we have had a lot of rainfall the past few weeks so a lot of them were bashed down but still okay.

This morning we took away all the dead leaves and tidied the patch up to allow the rest to flourish. Also I checked on the growth of the 1st one's we planted and they are still very small.

So my question is are these potatoes growing okay and when will they be ready (if at all) to be harvested???

Answer 1

If i was you i would go into the ground with your hands  and take some

of the potatoes from the outside  or dig one rootup to see how they

are doing

Answer 2

when the vines have dried up

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Answer 3

It sounds like your potatoes are growing just fine.  The way that you can tell that they are ready to dig is by the vines dying.  Once the vines are completely crisp and brown, the potatoes are ready to be dug.

Please note that they can be dug earlier than this (when the vines begin to die), but you are going to want to use them within a few days if you dig them early as their skin is not set and they are susceptible to decay.  Allowing them to stay in the ground until the vine is dead will set the skin and they will be able to store longer.

Answer 4

About  mid September or early October. Be sure to get them in before they freeze.

Answer 5

It sounds like they are growing just fine.  The small potatoes you found will grow quite a bit yet. Later in the fall after the tops have all fallen down dig them up and enjoy.  In truth, a frost or two won't hurt them a bit.  Lots of folks don't even dig their potatoes until after a couple of good freezes.