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2023 Spuds - Can the Man - 07-02-2023
I have started chitting my first earlies, they are called Solist. I will only grow them in the poly tunnel in raised beds. I grew them last year and they were a great success, so I ordered 2 x 2kg bags of seed. I will not grow any main crops this year as the last 2-3 years were disasters. They will be sown in March after St. Patrick’s Day and the shoots will be covered with fleece at night when they appear.
RE: 2023 Spuds - Jimny14 - 07-02-2023
I'm trying swift this year, will likely do first plantings toward end of march under tunnel cloche to warm up ground a bit, and protect from frost, then will hopefully plant a few more at 2wk ish intervals to try and spread the harvest
RE: 2023 Spuds - Bren - 07-02-2023
I’ve bought Charlottes again, they’re chitting on their egg trays.
RE: 2023 Spuds - Veggie - 07-02-2023
I have some Gemson, chitting away, from a FREE bag of spuds.
RE: 2023 Spuds - Small chilli - 07-02-2023
I’ll be choosing my spuds on the11th March.
They will be growing in bag so I can move them. But I’ll probably start the bags in the fenced tree area at our new house.
RE: 2023 Spuds - toomanytommytoes - 18-02-2023
Bought our seed potatoes the other day at the garden centre.
First Early - Red Duke of York
Second Early - Kestrel
Maincrop - Cara (blight resistant)
These have all done well for us in the past. Red Duke of York is one of the best tasting potatoes I've grown. Kestrel is also excellent.
I am determined to get 1kg per 10 L of pot volume for the 1st and 2nd earlies. We've always fallen slightly short, so this year I am putting 3 tubers per 20 L pot instead of 2 to see if that helps.
RE: 2023 Spuds - Can the Man - 04-03-2023
I decided to take a punt and put a few tubers in today to see how they go, the weathers been cold 4-6’C but should be warmer in the tunnel. I have the majority of the tubers to go in end of March
RE: 2023 Spuds - Vinny - 05-03-2023
Last year I had poor results from bought seed tatties and decent results from taties for eating which had sprouted. I will plant one bag of an early variety (yet to decide which?) and the rest will be sprouted supermarket tatties, which is all my Dad ever used.
RE: 2023 Spuds - Small chilli - 11-03-2023
This year we’re growing 3 seed Maris peer, 3 seed sunset & 6 seed blue annelise in potato bags. 25kg of sarpo Mira anywhere there’s a mound of earth on the new plot ( the big heap that will eventually go into raised beds asa base layer, and all the heaps dug out of trenches). And 1 seed of everything else on the list will also go into potato bags they’ll be in mixed varieties. Because I have no idea which is which.
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RE: 2023 Spuds - Vinny - 12-03-2023
(11-03-2023, 09:34 PM)Small chilli Wrote: This year we’re growing 3 seed Maris peer, 3 seed sunset & 6 seed blue annelise in potato bags. 25kg of sarpo Mira anywhere there’s a mound of earth on the new plot ( the big heap that will eventually go into raised beds asa base layer, and all the heaps dug out of trenches). And 1 seed of everything else on the list will also go into potato bags they’ll be in mixed varieties. Because I have no idea which is which.The problem with asking stupid questions is that invariably you get stupid answers!
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Especially from me!