oops!!
I just counted up and I have 115 seed potatoes chitting.
There's still the local potato day to attend so I think I might have gone over the top...again.
Ah well, there's always the front lawn.
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Permalink Reply by Samantha Smith on -
You could get some of them Wilkinsons potato bags Colin, better than digging up the lawn.
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Permalink Reply by Fred Hogg on -
I have over indulged as well, 10 red duke of york...10 kestrel .. 10 charlotte....10 salad blue and 40 king edwards.. not to bad, but i live by myself.......der
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Permalink Reply by Stacy Drury on -
you can NEVER have to many spuds! I grow any potatoes left over in Trugs in the back garden all as new pots.
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Permalink Reply by Stacy Drury on
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Yeah! I am with Debbie get the rotavator out!
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Permalink Reply by Fred Hogg on
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Managed to get hold of 10 potato congo, these are top of my list for growing, so shall not be planting all of the king edwards, give them to one of the newbies up the lotty...
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Permalink Reply by Flighty on -
I've got 80 and there's only me! That's the same as last year and I've still got enough stored to last me at least a couple of months.
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Permalink Reply by samm on -
HI I'm brand spangly new to seed potato chitting this year and I've read so many conflicting statements on 'eyes' and poking them out/chopping potatoes in half if they weigh a certain amount...gosh all sorts of things....so I have 12 little early spuds nestled in a box chitting for new potatoes in bags in April...half the potatoes have lovely dark green shoots at one end, the other half (which is a different variety) have at least 4/5 shoots all over the potato , front back sides the lot....where's the crown on these? do I cut out some of them and which ones?? do I cut them in half??? how do you cope with 115 of the complicated things??? or should I just chill and plant them as is and the potato will sort itself out :) thanks
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Permalink Reply by Flighty on
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Snail hello and wecome to UKVG. Most potatoes sprout at one end but as you see some don't. Don't cut or poke anything but you can rub a few shots off as they appear to leave just a couple at, or towards, one end.
As you say there is a lot of conflicting advice which can be confusing, especially to new growers.
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Permalink Reply by samm on
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thankyou,
I have grown a wildlife garden out of a waste land, organically for the past 20 years with little money, and now everything that flies, walks or hops is in there, but I havent grown veg and I havent really paid attention to the scientific side of gardening especially in my clay garden in the south of england...in fact a lot of the time whatever turned up and started to grow I was happy with and me, or the wildlife, found a use for it, but this veg gardening, especially in some quarters, is made to seem so complicated that I have lost my nerve a bit...that and I've had to fork out a bit for special compost, cloches, a little greenhouse, o you know how it goes and now I'm feeling a huge amount of pressure to make this 'growing food' thing work lol...I promise to calm down now that I've found you lot...honest injun lol
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Permalink Reply by Flighty on
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Snail you're welcome! Growing vegetables is as simple or complicated as you want to make it! I'm all for simple and tend to plant and sow everything direct and reckon that I don't do too badly. Even the most experienced growers have failures.
I have a plot neighbour who does simple and tends to do as well, and sometimes a lot better, than those who do the opposite. The later I have to say are often show exhibitors which is world apart from growing just to eat!
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Permalink Reply by Fred Hogg on
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10 potato congo arrived today , so thats 90 tubers chitting,to many, 20 are going to a newbie up the plot who has lost hers.The sheds on our site get broken into on a weekly basis, you stand there and welcome new plot holders, tell them there better of not having a shed up there but if its there preference do so. But do not keep anything of value in it .What did she do went to the allotment shop bought all her seed spuds onion & shallot sets and laid them out in her shed.Gone....And all her newly purchased bamboo canes used as kindling to burn down my neighbours shed, thus damaging my onion raised bed and wiping out the enviromesh cover over it. You can't help some people.
signed ANNOYED from the centre of the universe
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