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Title: My Spuds Dug this Morn
Post by: GRACELAND on July 12, 2011, 17:25:10

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My Spuds Dug this Morn

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Title: Re: My Spuds Dug this Morn
Post by: saddad on July 12, 2011, 17:47:48

Excellent...  :)

Title: Re: My Spuds Dug this Morn
Post by: GRACELAND on July 12, 2011, 17:53:46

Thank you i thought as we have no Water on site only rain water this was not a bad crop about 5 plants here  :)

Title: Re: My Spuds Dug this Morn
Post by: chriscross1966 on July 13, 2011, 09:18:49

If that's a normal 35 litre builders bucket you've got soem real monsters there by the looks of things... WEll done!

Title: Re: My Spuds Dug this Morn
Post by: cambourne7 on July 13, 2011, 11:34:17

YUM

Title: Re: My Spuds Dug this Morn
Post by: pumkinlover on July 13, 2011, 13:24:22

Quote from: GRACELAND on July 12, 2011, 17:53:46

Thank you i thought as we have no Water on site only rain water this was not a bad crop about 5 plants here  :)

Nice crop- but do people actually water spuds? Even in years of low rainfall no-one does on our site-much to the committee's relief it is just something no-one has ever done. :-\

Title: Re: My Spuds Dug this Morn
Post by: Flighty on July 13, 2011, 14:06:43

Chriscross that's one heck of a big builder's bucket as a normal sized one holds around 3 gallons or just over 13.5 litres!

Title: Re: My Spuds Dug this Morn
Post by: GRACELAND on July 13, 2011, 14:23:10

I don,t know what you call um garden trugg yep there big  


Ok sat bucket on bathroom scales its just under 30 kgs !!

Title: Re: My Spuds Dug this Morn
Post by: bikegirllisa on July 13, 2011, 21:55:45

Put the chip pan on!

Title: Re: My Spuds Dug this Morn
Post by: PurpleHeather on July 14, 2011, 00:37:48

Well done to you all

I have bags full of the things and only half dug up

Hopefully they will keep over winter.

Are we going into a a thousand and one ways to cook a pud yet?

Title: Re: My Spuds Dug this Morn
Post by: Digeroo on July 14, 2011, 06:38:15

I think that the warm weather in Aoril really got the potatoes going.  With the dry weather I thought that there would not be many about to buy so planted extra but I now have loads. 

Tesco are selling spuds at between 40p and £2 a kilo, so for 35kg say about £20 worth of spuds. 

Now who says that allotments etc are not good value. 

Title: Re: My Spuds Dug this Morn
Post by: brown thumb on July 14, 2011, 20:26:54

my salad potatoes is turned in giant bakers and i was looking foreward to little melt in the mouth fuls

Title: Re: My Spuds Dug this Morn
Post by: RenishawPhil on July 14, 2011, 22:05:23

Quote from: pumpkinlover on July 13, 2011, 13:24:22

Quote from: GRACELAND on July 12, 2011, 17:53:46

Thank you i thought as we have no Water on site only rain water this was not a bad crop about 5 plants here  :)

Nice crop- but do people actually water spuds? Even in years of low rainfall no-one does on our site-much to the committee's relief it is just something no-one has ever done. :-\

Yep certainly do water them!. Don't think they would grow that well.if I didn't

Title: Re: My Spuds Dug this Morn
Post by: brown thumb on July 14, 2011, 22:27:40

mine never got watered only what the heavens gave them and i think they did very good as i wasnt  expecting much of a crop

Title: Re: My Spuds Dug this Morn
Post by: willsy on July 16, 2011, 21:34:24

The Irish growers on our plot never water their spuds and always have brilliant crops.