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Produce => Edible Plants => Topic started by: pumkinlover on January 27, 2019, 13:13:22
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If you want to use these to plant late season where do you keep them until then?
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If you want to use these to plant late season where do you keep them until then?
Do you mean you are going to purchase them now to use later?
If so I think I would hang fire on buying them now, leave it to the specialists to store until you need them!
Then again; if you are planning on saving some of your own stock then put them in a paper/hessian bag ( NOT PLASTIC) and store them in a cool dark place.
Check them regularly to ensure that none are rotting otherwise the rotting one/s will contaminate the remainder!
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i think the fridge as long as you can keep the damp and the dessication process at bay
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I bought them yesterday. The blurb about them always says "can be planted late season for a Christmas potato"
Just wanted to see if others have used them for this and how they kept them?
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https://www.jbaseedpotatoes.co.uk/carlingford
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"can be planted late season for a Christmas potato"
As I indicated they do not want to be planted for around another 6 months yet!
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"can be planted late season for a Christmas potato"
As I indicated they do not want to be planted for around another 6 months yet!
Has any one bought them with the same happy plan then got them home and thought "now how do I keep them till planting time? I can't be the only person can I? :toothy10:
Looks like the fridge and careful checking might be the answer but I just wondered about other peoples experience, and whether it was successful.
In previous years I have just planted in the spring like the others because of this.
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How about trying planting a couple in a bucket as early as you possibly can, then re-plant the crop from them.
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Whoops that won't work, I have just been reading about second croppers. Your own will not work as the seed needs a period of dormancy before they will grow again.
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Thanks Ace, that saves me time and effort!
I am going to put them in the fridge and see what happens, if they start to shoot I will just plant them.
It's not like I am hung up on the "Christmas potato" thing it is just an experiment.
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I quite like the idea of digging a few for xmas. We have a little facebook page for local allotments so I asked if anybody has had any results from autumn sown spuds. As it turns out they sell the seed spuds local at the end of summer red and white Carlingford. It seems some have had success but others have wasted their time. The plant top dies before it has a chance to flower but it is all still happening underground. I might just try a row myself but wait until the proper time to buy the seed spuds.
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Well mine were only 15p each at the potato day on Saturday so I might risk saving a few till later on. I didn't realise that there are red Carlingford, thanks for trying.
I was told that my fathers family came from Carlingford, no idea if it's just the name though and a rumour!
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If you do plant Xmas spuds in late summer, it's best to do them in some sort of container that can be brought in out of the frost. Potatoes left iin wet ground almost always end up being slugged. The plants will race away at first, but get slower and slower once October is over ... they just need to be kept ticking over until Christmas time.
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I've decided to plant them as second earlies this spring now John.
But yes I agree, any spuds planted out of the main season seem to do better in a pot.
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Do you not think that the two suggestions might work, if moulded together. Plant as second earlies, harvest a selected, mature crop;ie when the skins have set and then give them the 'dormancy' in the bottom of your fridge. Say July-Sept. Then plant some for the @Christmas crop.
He who dares, wins!
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I might give that a whirl, my only worry is that I find that unless planted early enough Autumn planted potatoes never get to grow fast enough before the winter knocks them back. That is in the greenhouse.
So if this weather stays mild I might start them soon in pots in the greenhouse in the hope of getting them grown, chilled and then planted in time.