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Joe 90
 25 Jul 2011, 08:46 #124903 Reply To Post
Aka Early potatoes.

For those of you who grow potatoes, here's my suggestion. Based as it is on the last three years' trial.

Don't grow maincrop unless you have loads of space. By the time you harvest, there will be sackloads around for a few quid. All that work for next to nothing.

Grow first/second earlies. Try Pentland Javelin. I put 30 tubers in this year. Yesterday I dug about 5 buckets of spuds; creamy white, no need for peeling, very minimal damage and only one plant slightly affected by blight. Slugs don't go for them, neither do wireworms (despite a nearby very early variety being peppered with damage.)

This is the third year I have succeeded with Pentland. If I was to buy this quantity of spuds from the supermarket I would be talking nearly a hundred pounds, at a guess.

This information is presented in good faith. Caveat emptor.
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kazmojazz
 25 Jul 2011, 10:16 #124912 Reply To Post
Thank you for that, Joe. Maybe I should try potatoes next time instead of tomatoes - loads of flowers and not a single blinking tomato!

PS Clicked on this thinking it was a sporting event
Joe 90
 25 Jul 2011, 10:25 #124914 Reply To Post
Quote: kazmojazz, Monday, 25 Jul 2011 10:16
Thank you for that, Joe. Maybe I should try potatoes next time instead of tomatoes - loads of flowers and not a single blinking tomato!

PS Clicked on this thinking it was a sporting event


Did you remove side shoots? Some varieties need it, others don't.
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notleyab
 25 Jul 2011, 10:34 #124916 Reply To Post
Well, it was sporting of Joe to tell us.
You're getting very cagey sir - caveat emptor.
If you tested these spuds I'll believe you as a gentleman of Dursley.
(just checking you didn't get a message abt them from Shay's dad)
Joe 90
 25 Jul 2011, 10:58 #124924 Reply To Post
Quote: notleyab, Monday, 25 Jul 2011 10:34
Well, it was sporting of Joe to tell us.
You're getting very cagey sir - caveat emptor.
If you tested these spuds I'll believe you as a gentleman of Dursley.
(just checking you didn't get a message abt them from Shay's dad)


No,Shay's dad told me about removing side shoots from tomatoes.
I only get cagey 'cos our soil is medium clay. Some spud varieties don't thrive in such.

And yes, I am always a gentleman in my own eyes.
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kazmojazz
 25 Jul 2011, 11:04 #124926 Reply To Post
Quote: Joe 90, Monday, 25 Jul 2011 10:25


Did you remove side shoots? Some varieties need it, others don't.


No - will try that. Thanks.

My garden's full of wild flowers so perhaps the bees don't fancy boring old tomato when they can have a nice meadow cranesbill instead. Fingers crossed.
pevan
 14 Dec 2011, 14:55 #137130 Reply To Post
Haha I definitely have to think about growing the potatoes! :D I simply love everything one can do with them... so many possibilities for recipes! And the new spring I am going to rearrange my flower bed too.. thinking about trying ordering flowers online uk just to try out the difference in buying seeds directly at a store. We'll see.
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