Topic: what spuds are you growing in 2010..

[jimtheworzel]

get nine from hursery next week, mail ordef  10 for £3.95  p&p  inc
pick up in person  £2.85 a  3 KILO bag
ishall be there in person
saving £15.00 in postage

[cornykev]

I'll be getting mine this weekend, if they have them in, £3 ish for 3 kilos.  ;D ;D ;D

[AppleCrusher]

Cara and Aaron Pilot.  I only got the Allotment last autumn and I have been told the previous owner was a spud fiend and grew nothing else so hope there isn't too much disease in the soil.

[gardentg44]

anybody tried duke of york earlies.

white , picked some up at the GC yesterday.

are they  a new variety i was always led to believe  duke of york are red ???

[Robert_Brenchley]

Duke of York has been around for a century or so. It's white, and excellent. There's also Red Duke of York, which I've never tried.

[Kea]

Kea try groing some in containers or use nemaslug and all your slug worries will be gone.

Yes Thanks I think I might do that....containers I mean...T&M have some potato grow bags plus potatoes plus the £5 off voucher they just sent seems a good idea.

[Tin Shed]

I went to the Dutch Barn Nursery in Coggeshall today where they sell the tubers loose at £2.50/kilo ish [can't remember now] They have loads of varieties so I got about 5 of Accord, Arran Pilot, Rocket, Swift, Mayan Twilight, Nicola, Pixie, Maris Peer and 10 Charlotte - all supplied from JBA - thanks Tattieman!
Have also got some Ratte, Belle de Fontenay and Lady Balfour from other sources.
They are all now labelled and sitting in egg boxes!!!

[saddad]

I'm a fan of Red Dukes... good skin for baking. Stores well only starting to sprout now... dug up in July...  :)

[Tattieman]

I went to the Dutch Barn Nursery in Coggeshall today where they sell the tubers loose at £2.50/kilo ish [can't remember now] They have loads of varieties so I got about 5 of Accord, Arran Pilot, Rocket, Swift, Mayan Twilight, Nicola, Pixie, Maris Peer and 10 Charlotte - all supplied from JBA - thanks Tattieman!
Have also got some Ratte, Belle de Fontenay and Lady Balfour from other sources.
They are all now labelled and sitting in egg boxes!!!

That is a great result. Lots of choice and something to suit everyone.

[davyw1]

I will be sticking to my usual Rocket, Nadine and Kestrel.
I have just managed to get my last two rows out yesterday and today so anyone in doubt about growing Kestrel or Nadine

These are Nadine that i got out today the small bucket is the amount of badly damaged potatoes i got

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After a good wash

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Now sorted, the blue box are slight slug damage and fork damage on lifting. On the left the last of the Kestrel on the right Nadine

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The kestrel i took up yesterday

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