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Post by daitheplant on Apr 4, 2015 19:15:24 GMT
No thinking about it Jim, one of my clients ALWAYS buys me an Easter egg. so there. Dianthus, sorry, I had the wrong glasses on. Rose tinted ones no doubt No, chocolate tinted. I`m such a messy eater.
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Post by dianthus on Apr 7, 2015 18:12:01 GMT
It's so difficult to keep this thread on potatoes..... sigh!
Ground warming up nicely, so will plant some first earlies this week.
Have Rocket and Abbot (which is a first time for me). Rocket is well-suited to my bucket with a 'fish for a potato' approach, giving me about 6-8 weeks of cropping before I go on to the next variety.
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Post by roofgardener on Apr 12, 2015 7:34:37 GMT
ZOMG...a whole thread about spudlinks. How could I have missed this ? I grew my first lot last year, based on some generic white potato's I found sprouting in the back of my larder in a plastic bag. I have NO idea what species they are. My parents grew some in a small kitchen bin, about 2' tall. As it happens, I had a couple of bins I was going to throw away, so I thought "what the heck" and bunged the spuds in just out of curiosity. To my suprise, they sprouted, so I duly started filling the bin with soil as the sprouts grew. Eventually the bins where full, and the folliage was 3' up in the air above the top of the bins. It looked quite attractive. The harvest yielded about 10 or 15 fist-sized spudlinks, plus... gosh... 50 or more smaller ones. I baked the big ones, and steamed the smaller ones, and they where great ! There where 20 or so marble-sized ones left over that I completely forgot about, so I've planted them THIS year. This is an important milestone for me, as these represent "second generation" vegetables... e.g. grown from seeds that come from a plant I've grown myself. My 2015 Spudlinkariums. I planted them a month ago when we had the torrential rain. Although the bins have drainage holes, I was afraid that the spuds may have rotted, or where perhaps sterile or something, as nothing seemed to be happening. However, sprouts emerged last week, and seem to be growing strongly. I may have to start topping up the soil in the next few days.... Now that I know that the spuds will sprout, I may add a third ... or even fourth ... bin, as I still have about 8 spuds left over. The orange and black plantpots above and to the side are onions ! Click on the picture to expand
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Post by dianthus on Apr 12, 2015 18:52:54 GMT
Well done roofie.
Have you had a look at the T&M potato catalogue, to see if you recognise your potato variety? If they were from supermarket pack washed potatoes, they are likely to be maris piper, wilja, estima, saxon, Nadine, Cara or King Edward.
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Post by daitheplant on Apr 12, 2015 19:21:25 GMT
ZOMG...a whole thread about spudlinks. How could I have missed this ? I grew my first lot last year, based on some generic white potato's I found sprouting in the back of my larder in a plastic bag. I have NO idea what species they are. My parents grew some in a small kitchen bin, about 2' tall. As it happens, I had a couple of bins I was going to throw away, so I thought "what the heck" and bunged the spuds in just out of curiosity. To my suprise, they sprouted, so I duly started filling the bin with soil as the sprouts grew. Eventually the bins where full, and the folliage was 3' up in the air above the top of the bins. It looked quite attractive. The harvest yielded about 10 or 15 fist-sized spudlinks, plus... gosh... 50 or more smaller ones. I baked the big ones, and steamed the smaller ones, and they where great ! There where 20 or so marble-sized ones left over that I completely forgot about, so I've planted them THIS year. This is an important milestone for me, as these represent "second generation" vegetables... e.g. grown from seeds that come from a plant I've grown myself. My 2015 Spudlinkariums. I planted them a month ago when we had the torrential rain. Although the bins have drainage holes, I was afraid that the spuds may have rotted, or where perhaps sterile or something, as nothing seemed to be happening. However, sprouts emerged last week, and seem to be growing strongly. I may have to start topping up the soil in the next few days.... Now that I know that the spuds will sprout, I may add a third ... or even fourth ... bin, as I still have about 8 spuds left over. The orange and black plantpots above and to the side are onions ! Click on the picture to expand The species is...........................potato. What you don`t have is the VARIETY.
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Post by roofgardener on Apr 12, 2015 20:09:24 GMT
True, Daitheplant, true. But then... I go for quantity over Variety ANY day It's a point ... if these spudlinks succeed, then I will plant THEM next year... and so forth. And we will never know. Where they descended from Royality, or just back-street Spudlinks ? And does it matter, as they go into the oven ?
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Post by daitheplant on Apr 12, 2015 20:17:06 GMT
True, Daitheplant, true. But then... I go for quantity over Variety ANY day It's a point ... if these spudlinks succeed, then I will plant THEM next year... and so forth. And we will never know. Where they descended from Royality, or just back-street Spudlinks ? And does it matter, as they go into the oven ? We are very similar in taste Roofy. It`s just that I put QUALITY above QUANTITY.
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Post by sweetpea on Apr 12, 2015 21:51:56 GMT
Actually daitheplant the species is solanum tuberosum as I'm sure you well know
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Post by KC on Apr 13, 2015 12:56:12 GMT
I was given some King Edward seed potatoes, I think they've over-chitted if that's possible, the shoots are a tad long I do however have some Maris Piper seed potatoes almost chitted
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Post by dianthus on Apr 13, 2015 17:14:28 GMT
I was given some King Edward seed potatoes, I think they've over-chitted if that's possible, the shoots are a tad long I do however have some Maris Piper seed potatoes almost chitted They will probably be ok, it's just more difficult when planting them, to not knock off the shoots.
btw, the mint is ready to split now KC
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Post by daitheplant on Apr 13, 2015 19:44:14 GMT
Actually daitheplant the species is solanum tuberosum as I'm sure you well know I do indeed sweetpea.
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Post by roofgardener on Apr 13, 2015 20:57:28 GMT
Yeah... thats what I was JUST about to say. Solarium Tolberonesum. Obviously. I knew that !
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Post by roofgardener on Apr 13, 2015 21:10:37 GMT
Well done roofie.
Have you had a look at the T&M potato catalogue, to see if you recognise your potato variety? If they were from supermarket pack washed potatoes, they are likely to be maris piper, wilja, estima, saxon, Nadine, Cara or King Edward. Nah.... they where from the Undershop (the local shop below my flat), and where in a plain plastic bag. They where like my knees. White, knobbly and (at the time I planted them) wrinkled and a bit grubby. I guess.. well... once the NEW ones grow, I can try to identify them ? I'll post images of them here. (The potato's, that is, not the knees).
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Post by sweetpea on Apr 13, 2015 22:41:01 GMT
Yeah... thats what I was JUST about to say. Solarium Tolberonesum. Obviously. I knew that !
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Post by dianthus on Apr 14, 2015 18:40:12 GMT
Yeah... thats what I was JUST about to say. Solarium Tolberonesum. Obviously. I knew that ! Fruit and nut variety?
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