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peony Top Member Posts: 4,719	Potatoes Mar 24, 2015 13:13:41 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by peony on Mar 24, 2015 13:13:41 GMT To be honest KC, I've never weighed them, but they are much tastier then the bought ones and they scrape very easily. It also depends which potatoes you use, my best croppers have been Charlotte and Rocket
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Potatoes Mar 24, 2015 15:48:05 GMT

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Mar 24, 2015 13:02:22 GMT KC said:

I'd probably go to Poundland too

So how many potatoes do you harvest per bag with 4-5 potatoes planted?
Sorry these must sound like dumb questions

A forty litre sized bag should take 2/3 potatoes.... I usually put a little pelleted feed and some granular gel in the compost mix, to stop them drying out.

I have grown earlies in a 10l bucket, with drainage holes punched in base, one per bucket. You won't get as many or as large as if grown in ground, so earlies make the best financial sense.

Rosie Global Moderator Rambling Rosie. Posts: 9,407	Potatoes Mar 24, 2015 16:41:13 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Rosie on Mar 24, 2015 16:41:13 GMT I saved some Druid so they will be planted, but the soil is only 5 degree's just now so i can't get my earlies in or they would
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Potatoes Mar 24, 2015 22:21:20 GMT

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Mar 24, 2015 16:41:13 GMT Rosie said:

I saved some Druid so they will be planted, but the soil is only 5 degree's just now so i can't get my earlies in

or they would

Have you tried planting a few in buckets, and start them off in greenhouse or somewhere sheltered. They go out as soon as safe, but it brings forward the first taste of them, by about a fortnight.

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Potatoes Mar 24, 2015 23:39:26 GMT Rosie, peony, and 1 more like this

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Will be growing some this year but not sure what variety yet as only just decided I have some space to grow them as I am getting on with cleaning up some ground.
Have grown many varieties over the years both for the kitchen and exhibition.
One of my favourites is a 2nd early Vanessa. Sometimes wrongly classed as a 1st early.
Anyway the old rule for planting is, 'Plant earlies late and lates, early'

I'll get around to it eventually

sweetpea Top Member Posts: 5,982	Potatoes Mar 25, 2015 23:48:09 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by sweetpea on Mar 25, 2015 23:48:09 GMT Got two varieties today. 1st Early Nicola and 2nd early Pentland Javelin. I line the planting drill with grass cuttings and put the sets on that.
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Rosie Global Moderator Rambling Rosie. Posts: 9,407	Potatoes Mar 26, 2015 9:07:53 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Rosie on Mar 26, 2015 9:07:53 GMT Thats meant to be a good idea sweetpea...only our grass doesn't need cutting yet, its hardly growing as it's so chilly.
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sweetpea Top Member Posts: 5,982	Potatoes Mar 26, 2015 12:12:18 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by sweetpea on Mar 26, 2015 12:12:18 GMT Mar 26, 2015 9:07:53 GMT Rosie said: Thats meant to be a good idea sweetpea...only our grass doesn't need cutting yet, its hardly growing as it's so chilly. Cut my grass a few times rosie but then again, I don't live in the frozen north
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Rosie Global Moderator Rambling Rosie. Posts: 9,407	Potatoes Mar 26, 2015 16:24:14 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Rosie on Mar 26, 2015 16:24:14 GMT Lucky you sweetpea!! I was through your old stomping ground of Portsoy a few days ago
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sweetpea Top Member Posts: 5,982	Potatoes Mar 26, 2015 17:27:30 GMT dianthus likes this Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by sweetpea on Mar 26, 2015 17:27:30 GMT Mar 26, 2015 16:24:14 GMT Rosie said: Lucky you sweetpea!! I was through your old stomping ground of Portsoy a few days ago used to catch geekies off the pier when I was a wee loon. memories.
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Potatoes Mar 26, 2015 17:32:59 GMT

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Mar 26, 2015 17:27:30 GMT sweetpea said:

Mar 26, 2015 16:24:14 GMT Rosie said:

Lucky you sweetpea!! I was through your old stomping ground of Portsoy a few days ago

used to catch geekies off the pier when I was a wee loon. memories.

What are 'geekies' and I thought 'loons' were ocean-going birds or 60's flared hipster trousers, sweetpea

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Mar 26, 2015 17:32:59 GMT dianthus said:

Mar 26, 2015 17:27:30 GMT sweetpea said:

used to catch geekies off the pier when I was a wee loon. memories.

What are 'geekies' and I thought 'loons' were ocean-going birds or 60's flared hipster trousers, sweetpea

As with many things, some words have more than one meaning dianthus .
in the dialect of North East Jockinese a loon is a boy (quean) a girl) and geekies are fish though I don't know what variety if any. Portsoy is a town with a harbour in case you didn't know that either.

Oh and just to remain on topic, you can grow potatoes there too.

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Mar 26, 2015 17:27:30 GMT sweetpea said:

Mar 26, 2015 16:24:14 GMT Rosie said:

Lucky you sweetpea!! I was through your old stomping ground of Portsoy a few days ago

used to catch geekies off the pier when I was a wee loon. memories.

I'll take some harbour pictures next time I'm through there

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sweetpea Top Member Posts: 5,982	Potatoes Mar 27, 2015 14:53:42 GMT Rosie and dianthus like this Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by sweetpea on Mar 27, 2015 14:53:42 GMT Don't fall in rosie
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Tel Top Member Posts: 7,992	Potatoes Mar 27, 2015 15:43:24 GMT dianthus likes this Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Tel on Mar 27, 2015 15:43:24 GMT Mar 27, 2015 14:53:42 GMT sweetpea said: Don't fall in rosie If she does lets hope there is someone with her, with a camera.
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