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Growing potatoes

On 08/01/2010 in Allotments

the Christmas decorations to the shed this morning - always a tinge of sadness - I stopped off at the greenhouse to harvest the last of our Christmas potatoes.We planted a variety of spuds in pots and compost sacks when we got back from holiday at the beginning


First early potatos

On 14/06/2012 in forum

Once your potato plants flower, is it better to dig all the first earlies up and store the potatos inside or can I leave the potatos and plants in the ground and dig them up as I need them? If I want the ground to grow something else in, is it OK


Potatoes (again-sorry!)

On 13/06/2012 in forum

This is my first year of growing my own and I'm growing kestrel potatoes which I planted mid February in a "potato bag" rolled down.  Since then I have been earthing up until the bag is full.  There is about 2ft of soil and 1.5ft of foliage which


potato leaves yellowing

On 19/05/2012 in forum

The leaves in both my bags of Pentland Javelin are changing to a bright yellow. They were chitted then planted on 3 March. I've never grown potatoes before so don't know what to expect, but instinct tells me something is wrong. Advise appreciated


Last years potatoes in May

On 31/05/2012 in forum

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


Chitting potatoes

On 25/01/2008 in Allotments

If you ask me, there's very little that beats home-grown potatoes from the plot. They're so easy to grow, pay little heed to the vagaries of our weather and produce an abundance of lovely spuds throughout the season. In short, potatoes are one


Harvesting potatoes

On 01/08/2008 in Unassigned

.Then I focus my attention on potatoes. Yes, it's potato time again; over the past week or so I've been lifting the last of the earlies and second earlies to store in the garage at home. The earlies are getting beyond 'new' potato stage - in fact


Seed potatoes

On 10/02/2010 in Grow & eat

The first of the snowdrops are up, my daffodils are romping away - I can almost believe that spring will actually arrive. But it's the seed potatoes that are really firing me up.I can't resist buying seed potatoes, and have bought three batches


Potato blight

On 31/07/2008 in Unassigned

Potato blight, Phytophthora infestans, determines the quality and quantity of our potato harvest. We grow our own spuds every year, but harvest them in varying quantities, depending on whether or not they've been affected.The fungal infection


Potato blight

On 09/07/2009 in Grow & eat

Here we are in early July and I have a horrible feeling that potato blight is just around the corner. The weather has been perfect for this horrible fungal infection to wreak havoc on everyone's home-grown spuds. By the look of the weather right now


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