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pumkinlover

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Re: blu danube potatoes £1
« Reply #40 on: May 04, 2011, 22:37:55 »
still waiting :)

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Re: blu danube potatoes £1
« Reply #41 on: May 04, 2011, 23:05:54 »
sanity is overated

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Re: blu danube potatoes £1
« Reply #42 on: May 05, 2011, 06:45:33 »
Got mine and the Sarpo Mira on Tuesday.  Shared the Blue Danube ones with a friend and planted the rest, now need to find room for the Sarpo Mira.  Will give some to the school group to plant in a currently unallocated space on their plot and think I may have to use the rest as a second crop when I take my first earlies up

I don't think T&M will make a loss on selling these at this low price, they will have fulfilled all full price orders and what's left they have reduced.  The alternative for any supplier on items they don't sell is to dump - and then they have to pay to do that!  (We used to get surplus eggs free at our allotments, the producer had a contract to supply a certain regular amount to a large supermarket, anything over he wasn't allowed to sell elsewhere so had to pay to dump them - until he found us!)

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Re: blu danube potatoes £1
« Reply #43 on: May 05, 2011, 09:30:03 »
Mine arrived 20 tubers of Blue Danube and 30 of the Sarpo Mira! Really chuffed. All planted now.

pumkinlover

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Re: blu danube potatoes £1
« Reply #44 on: May 05, 2011, 13:58:31 »
I thought I'd been "done" as they do not look Blue at all but a quick wash under the tap! :-[

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Re: blu danube potatoes £1
« Reply #45 on: May 07, 2011, 07:54:20 »
Is it worth chitting them or should I just bung them in at this late stage?

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Re: blu danube potatoes £1
« Reply #46 on: May 07, 2011, 08:21:22 »
Is it worth chitting them or should I just bung them in at this late stage?

I had the same thoughts when mine arrived - I decided to put them in ??


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Re: blu danube potatoes £1
« Reply #47 on: May 07, 2011, 09:12:25 »
Got mine yesterday.
I too thought not very blue.  Never thought of washing them.  Thanks PKL.
Putting them in as soon as rain permits.  It will be interesting to see how they do.

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Re: blu danube potatoes £1
« Reply #48 on: May 07, 2011, 09:44:13 »
These did brilliantly for us last year! Good crop and stored very well. Made nice mash and chips...

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Re: blu danube potatoes £1
« Reply #49 on: June 04, 2011, 00:44:47 »
Have you seen much progress with these - I put mine in around a month ago and only one has broken through above earth.

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Re: blu danube potatoes £1
« Reply #50 on: June 04, 2011, 06:05:59 »
Mine are mostly just through.  3 are still to apppear.

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Re: blu danube potatoes £1
« Reply #51 on: June 04, 2011, 09:42:48 »
Mine have been in about a month too. They do seem quite slow but they are all through now.
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Re: blu danube potatoes £1
« Reply #52 on: June 04, 2011, 13:31:48 »
Planted mine a spit deep and all through 4 weeks later. Been earthing them up this morning.

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Re: blu danube potatoes £1
« Reply #53 on: July 10, 2011, 17:50:25 »
How are yours doing? Mine are flowering madly despite being in a poo patch and competing with phacelia and various weeds. hope they are as good underneath as on top!

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Re: blu danube potatoes £1
« Reply #54 on: July 10, 2011, 20:06:28 »
Mine are flowering too ..... a lovely purple flower.   :D

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