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    As Always to many potatoes, cannot resist 21 rows final rows planted yesterday.

    what I have is

    3 rows red king edwards jba direct

    3 rows blue kestrel jba direct

    3 rows bonnie jba direct

    2 rows anya garden centre

    2 rows lady crystal jba stores

    2 rows harliquin jba direct

    1 row kestrel jba stores

    2 rows orla jba stores

    3 rows pink fir short rows trago mills

    plus epicure in upside down compost bin jba direct


    in the polytunnel

    nadine, pentlin early of some sort, anya from sainsburys, plus six potatoes bags.

    Gone mad again I blame tattieman

    what has everyone else planted, and how many

    marion

  • #2
    Wow that sounds like a lot to me, although I haven't grown potatoes before to know how much yield you'll get off those!
    I've only got 8 Rocket seed potatoes, certainly not a scratch on yours!

    Wishing you some Happy Potato dust!
    Gayle

    Container gardening this year, bring on the Spring!

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    • #3
      Too early for me to plant yet. 20th April is my target day, We are weeks behind you lot down south.
      Last edited by Aberdeenplotter; 07-03-2011, 05:41 PM.

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      • #4
        Originally posted by Aberdeenplotter View Post
        Too early for me to plant yet. 20th April is my target day, We are weeks behind you lot down south.
        I'll plant my first earlies at the end of March, with everything else following about 3 - 4 weeks later. They reckon it takes "Spring" 6 weeks to travel from Cornwall and Devon to the northernmost point of God's Country so we a re probably about a month behind up here.
        Rat

        British by birth
        Scottish by the Grace of God

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        • #5
          I have 26 assorted earlies in containers in the greenhouse and they are just poking their heads above the compost. About another 100 seeds for the plot, again assorted varieties.
          I think this year I have:
          Lady Christl
          Pentland Javelin
          Maris Bard
          Nicola
          Charlotte
          Carlingford
          Kestrel
          Harlequin
          Maris Piper

          Can't wait for those first pickings with melted butter dripping over them.

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          • #6
            Originally posted by kittykat8 View Post
            As Always to many potatoes, cannot resist 21 rows final rows planted yesterday.

            what I have is

            3 rows red king edwards jba direct

            3 rows blue kestrel jba direct

            3 rows bonnie jba direct

            2 rows anya garden centre

            2 rows lady crystal jba stores

            2 rows harliquin jba direct

            1 row kestrel jba stores

            2 rows orla jba stores

            3 rows pink fir short rows trago mills

            plus epicure in upside down compost bin jba direct


            in the polytunnel

            nadine, pentlin early of some sort, anya from sainsburys, plus six potatoes bags.

            Gone mad again I blame tattieman

            what has everyone else planted, and how many

            marion
            I take the blame fully on the chin.

            I have got 3 Swift and some Purple eyed seedling planted under fleece. The rest are on the window sill still. We had frost every night for the last 5 nights.
            Potato videos here.

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            • #7
              I forgive you tattieman, I have an addiction, cant wait for my Red King Edwards, they have been in for 3 to 4 weeks as I have to try and beat the blight, 3 years ago it came in may, but july is the normal. Maxicrop worked a treat. By the way the potatoes at the allotment stores sold a treat none left,

              marion

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              • #8
                I've a few more this year as I'm trying some in the ground for the very first time. This year's harvest will determine how many I grow next! Glad I haven't put them in yet though, it was -4 and very frosty this morning.
                Granny on the Game in Sheffield

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                • #9
                  Going to put mine in the ground middle of March if the frosts ever stop
                  WPC F Hobbit, Shire police

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                  • #10
                    None , very late with everything this year and have only bought Kestrel and Charlotte seed potatoes so far. Won't be planting any in rows when I do get around to it, all my potatoes this year are going in pots and bags, am still in the process of re-organising/clearing and tidying the plot and don't have a spare that many beds prepared, at least with bags and pots I can scatter them around the plot in any spare little spaces I have.
                    It was dark. And cold. And very, very empty.

                    And in the middle of all of the dark, cold, emptiness lay something darker, and colder, but very, very full.

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                    • #11
                      Too frosty here, even in the sunny south, so I'm going to wait. Have now decided to do them under plastic, as I have a lovely long new bed full of horse manure, leaf mulch and compost, that is covered with black plastic. The plastic (compost bags) was added a few weeks ago to prevent weeds seeding in the lovely new topping of compost I'd just spread out, but it really sapped my energy for the following 2 weeks. So realised filling buckets will also be too exhausting, so yesterday decided that my plastic sheeting is actually set-up for me to just slit holes in and pop some spuds in. The spuds apparently grow and lay on the surface, so as long as the slugs don't take hold (I need to lift sheets and sprinkle slug pellets first), then I should get a decent harvest, for very little effort.

                      8 Pentland Javeline
                      8 Rocket
                      8 Maris Peer
                      8 Charlotte

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                      • #12
                        It was potato-planting weather here today on the south coast.

                        Earlies:
                        about 12 Rocket (garden centre)
                        5 Charlotte (garden centre)

                        For mains:
                        5 Black Vitolette (over-priced off ebay, but pretty interesting-looking - known as "Truffle potatoes".)
                        12 Shetland Black (from waitrose)
                        8 Maris Piper (from Wilkinsons - cheap, but threatening to go soft)

                        Good to hear others are taking the risk. Although it will be really annoying if there are cold nights in about a month - Last year i was running around with sheets of newspaper in the dark... not recommended.

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                        • #13
                          My Lady C will go in their dustbins this weekend. Then I can pop the lid on if we get a cold spell.

                          Colin
                          Potty by name Potty by nature.

                          By appointment of VeggieChicken Member of the Nutters club.


                          We hang petty thieves and appoint great ones to public office.

                          Aesop 620BC-560BC

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