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    Seed potatoes

    Have been reading up on this, but am still a bit confused. Can anyone help? I wanted to plant some seed potatoes and wondered if it was the right time of year or not, or whether I should wait until spring. Was going to buy some off ebay. Can anyone help?
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    Don't buy them now. Far too cold to plant now.

    It is traditional to plant them around Easter time. It is best to buy seed spuds in Jan or Feb.

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    • #3
      as cosmo says too early & too cold, if you read the seed mags you can order them now but they are not despatched until next year
      The love of gardening is a seed once sown never dies ...

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      • #4
        Thanks very much - I will hold off until then Cosmo and Dibs and Hans Mum. Was just keen to crack on with another batch.

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          Good Friday is an easy date to remember.
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          • #6
            Originally posted by Bigmallly View Post
            Good Friday is an easy date to remember.
            So is St Patricks day
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            • #7
              I am quite south in relation to some grapes and usually sow a few earlies beginning of Feb. They do need protection sowing that early but most years I get away with it and get an early crop.

              Ian

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              • #8
                You'll see them in the garden centres after Christmas, OP. Don't do what I did last year and store them in the shed. The severe cold weather got most of them. Frost hardy they certainly are not! I sowed some of them in March and I did have to protect them.

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                • #9
                  St Patricks' Day it is for my tatties.
                  RtB x

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