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  • No expert wrote (see)

    They say that the first person to live to 150 is already alive.

    Best keep the dithane just incase it is you!

    What an awful thing to wish somebody! I don't wish to live that long, probably being gaga, doubly incontinent and kept alive by being hooked up to machines - I want to pop my clogs while I am still compos mentis and can look after myself.

    Go out on a high!

     

    To Bob the Gardener,

    Why do you try to perform the impossible? - peeling Pink Fir Apple spuds? - I just clean them with a pot scourer and then boil them.

  • My OH won't eat them with the skins on Alan!  Personally, I don't even mind a bit of soil left on things I eat!  We couldn't be more different really.

    A trowel in the hand is worth a thousand lost under a bush.
  • I have 3 potato bags and half of my G/H borders planted with Charlotte & Maris Peer late October, they are growing well but I didn't get any Xmas spuds.

    Still, at least I have over 120 spuds chitting - my local cider farm takes my surplus eggs and onions etc. The price he pays me has increased to £2/doz hen eggs - the duck eggs went for £2.50/doz. With layer pellets costing £8.70/25kg I am glad this is only a hobby! The farmer sells me Apple Cider Vinegar @ 40p/litre - keeps my hens healthy.

     

  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,887

    dense heavy clay here in North Devon. I've grown Charlotte , Lady Christl and Pink Fir Apple with success, but this year I'm going with Charlotte and Maris Piper and Foremost. Ring the changes.

     

    Devon.
  • I fed my veg plot of heavy clay soil for years, but due to one or more marauding foxes, I decided to relocate my ducks to a secured fenced veg plot. - no more fox kills but I now have to start again in what was the previous duck run.

    I trialled Vales Emerald a few years ago - very nice so I am now regrowing them. Lady Christl was OK but not very prolific.

    My personal preference is for waxy spuds inc Desiree. I do not eat many chips so floury spuds have no interest for me.

    I will try Blue Belle this year, I bought some reduced price that had started to chit, so will try them. Reduced price Maris Peer spuds from Morrison's did very well for me.

    Dn't forget to spray spuds & toms with Dithane 945 

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