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"Know how you feel but most of the spud is underground-you may have to harvest earlier than you planned just use them as extra early spuds-yum!"

"My potatos are still standing but 2 broadbeans also broke   their stems while my cucumbers are withering in the cold rain.  Seriously missing flaming June..."

"They may come back yet.. I always worry during a good storm"

"If the haulms are very badly damaged it's very difficult for them to recover. It happened to me last year and I don't think the spuds bulked up much at all after that, even though they got a high potash feed. Don't give up on them…"

"I have the same trouble, 3 of my bags have met the 'storms doom', luckly they are just about ready, but I would've been gutted if it had happened before now. My peas also took a battering, the pods were just coming on and starting to…"

"I'm trying to keep my polytunnel intact at the moment ! Being right on the seafront it is a bit exposed!"

"we have strong winds also (right now) and I dread to go out to the allotment to see what happened."

" Above is how they looked on the 12th Feb,2012.I was keeping the compost warm. I had 2 rows in this bed. And below on the 26th March.  Probably 6 seed spuds in both rows. "

"What supermarket ones? Any rough guess on wen u planted and how many plants gave u that great harvest?thanks d"

"I didn't take notice of the time, but I dug them before flowers appeared and their stalks were falling over anyway."

"Yea i. Know. How long did u have them in the ground? Thanks"

"They are Red Roosters,leftovers from bought spuds that chitted. It's very hard not to rummage around in the soil..LOL!"

"Thats very good what kind are they? I was just havin a look not intending to dig up until july/august.il See"

"Congrats, David. Your crop seems to be doing well. Aren't we very impatient to see what's below ground..LOL! I dug my tunnel spuds about 2 weeks ago and got these... "