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  • Keeping Early Potatoes

    So. If you're only going to grow earlies (like snadge) how do you keep the seed potatoes?

    I mean, if you're going to plant them successionally, how do you stop them from going leggy/off or whatever the technical term is?

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    The time scale we are talking about is only about a month. If the seed tubers are kept frost free in the light they will keep easily!

    At the end of the growing season they can also be left buried in the ground and lifted as required up until the hard frosts arrive!
    My Majesty made for him a garden anew in order
    to present to him vegetables and all beautiful flowers.- Offerings of Thutmose III to Amon-Ra (1500 BCE)

    Diversify & prosper


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    • #3
      One word of warning about leaving them in the ground...Pests....Had a couple of slugs in my Roosters (Big holes) and they had scabs caused by other insects attacking them.

      Just a thought but I agree with Snadger keep em in as long as possible.


      Dave
      Just an Office Guy trying to grow own food

      http://www.allotment13.blogspot.com/

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      • #4
        Originally posted by basketcase View Post
        So. If you're only going to grow earlies (like snadge) how do you keep the seed potatoes?
        Do you mean for sowing your own seed spuds next year?

        I keep mine in a plastic bag in the salad drawer of the fridge. They keep just fine, for what ... 6 months until I chit them in January.
        All gardeners know better than other gardeners." -- Chinese Proverb.

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        • #5
          Originally posted by DaveInBraknell View Post
          One word of warning about leaving them in the ground...Pests....Had a couple of slugs in my Roosters (Big holes) and they had scabs caused by other insects attacking them.

          Just a thought but I agree with Snadger keep em in as long as possible.


          Dave
          For some reason my soil appears to be strangely bereft of the dreaded keel slug.
          My poor old Dad battled with them all his life and still didn't beat them! He used to put all sorts of concoctions, including mothballs and ***** fluid into his tattie trenches.............but tatties were still full of holes when he dug them!
          Last edited by Snadger; 25-09-2009, 05:40 PM.
          My Majesty made for him a garden anew in order
          to present to him vegetables and all beautiful flowers.- Offerings of Thutmose III to Amon-Ra (1500 BCE)

          Diversify & prosper


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