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whisky

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new potatoes
« on: August 03, 2009, 15:54:25 »
Please can anyone help, Can you tell me when i boil or steam my
charlotte pots why so does some of the skin come off?  Also has
anybody grown Belle de Fontenay and was they the same,

  Many thanks in advance
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Robert_Brenchley

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Re: new potatoes
« Reply #1 on: August 03, 2009, 18:57:03 »
It sounds like you're overcooking them. I tried Belle de Fontenay last year, but everything was so waterlogged they rotted in the ground. Not a fair trial!
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Re: new potatoes
« Reply #2 on: August 03, 2009, 20:51:17 »
If the tops have not died off or cut back and the spuds left for a couple of weeks then the skins will not of hardened off.
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Re: new potatoes
« Reply #3 on: August 04, 2009, 10:21:55 »
Many thanks everyone i think it is probably not leaving them alone to
dry off enough   

thanks for your advice eveyone
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