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my potatoes have little green balls on them ,they look like tomatoes,but they are not,can anybody help me please ?? Move away from the plant-they are the fruits of the plant and must not be eaten- quite toxic-a similar question was asked last week by bec2

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15/07/2012 13:52:18

by bec2

Potatoes

Hi all how do I know when you potatoes are ready to pull only they are in a tub in the green house and are now about 1ft tall and are starting to flower, so do I wait for the flower or pull them now ? I only put 2 potatoes in the pot but have about by Kathleen Hewson

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09/06/2012 17:23:38

by Lullabelle

potatoes

Hi,I want to buy some sacks for my potatoes when I harvest them.I do not know where the best place is ,can anyone help? What sort of quantities? bout 20 or so bags or sacks. I would suggest an on-line search- a few come up-this is one http://www.gardening-naturally.com/acatalog/Potato by birch

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16/06/2012 09:39:06

by Welshonion

potatoes

hello i dont know whether you can help e or not but my grandad watched gardeners world the other night and they were planting potatoes. before they were planted a few of the sprits were knocked off them but my grandad either missed the reason why by ben groom

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14/04/2012 09:46:26

by Man of Kent

Potatoes

I've grown potatoes in sacks for the first time this year and am wodering whether it is better to keep them in the sacks or dig them up and put them into storage sacks, On some of the ones I am digging up there are whats best described as warts by parry14

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27/07/2012 19:21:22

by sotongeoff

Potatoes

HI would like to know the best potatoes to plant this year, last year our potatoes fell apart when boiled but in middle was dry and flourie Thanks Pauline Hello Pauline, It sounds as though you need to grow salad potatoes. There are plenty by paulinefuller

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18/01/2012 20:01:20

by Terence Jones

potatoes

, yes keep feeling them and if possible try to stop them touching each other, as contact can cause mould to form. But your garage is perfect for them There is still plenty of time. I don't usually plant potatoes before April. You don't want their green by adam murray

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03/04/2013 11:23:20

by Joyce Goldenlily

Potatoes

assume you are now chitting the seed potatoes? One thing I have learnt over many years you can never garden to the calendar or predict the weather I still wonder about planting so early as blight tends to strike maincrop and there is still plenty of time by jad1

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01/02/2013 13:38:13

by sotongeoff

Potatoes

Can anyone tell me please if Its to late now to start chitting potatoes hi jen although mine are in the ground (just) i would give it a go it would be like a trial what have you to lose Hi Jen, as a result of the incident previously described by jen16

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19/05/2013 22:49:23

by jen16

Last years potatoes in May

I've just been at my allotment and dug up a row of potatoes I'd left in from last year. They had sprouted but when I dug them up and broke the sprouts off, to my surprise (especially since we're in May!) they look great. They've been under black by J82

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31/05/2012 12:25:49

by J82

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