While we're on the subject...

... I emptied my trial bucket of main crop potatoes (desiree) today. It is a bit early, but the tops had dried out and flopped over on all my remaining potato sacks so I wanted to see what was going on.

The tubers were absolutely fine.

So, I have now removed the stems from all potato sacks and will effectively be using the compost to store them until required rather than expecting them to grow any more. Hopefully they will be okay.