Thanks for your message. Our climates are similar, so wet this summer. I'll try again next year. You mentioned that Desiree had escaped; of my survivors most were that variety.
I planted Pink fir apple spuds this year and whilst im not laden down with them what i have got are reallt tasty. Im on the south coast so it has been really wet this year and lots of people have lost theirs to blight i seem to be lucky at the moment. Have grown the beef tomatoes in the greenhouse and they seem to be successful, the ones on the allotment are a waste of time. I have loads of runner beans, but the french are pretty hopeless. A bit of a hit and miss growing year, but theres always next year.
I put in Vivaldi and Lady Christl, dug up seven tops and got enough for about 3 dinners. Dreadful. Have some sarpo mira in a barrel which will leave for a few more weeks and hope to get a few more from that.
About to lift potatoes grown in a raised bed any ideas what I can plant in the spaceI left behind already have 3 courgette plants in this bed. This is my first year using 3 raised beds so any suggestions would be helpful also trying to rotate these is another problem as most articles show plans for 4 beds.
Bed 1 Potatoes,spinach (disaster slugs got the lot) and courgettes
Bed 2 Brussel sprouts and sprouting broccoli
Bed 3 Carrots, yellow beans (not good) and parsnips.
I dug up some potatoes today to find they had brown spots on them like phoatos blight,what can be the cause of this and how could i stop it,could it be the weather,
We grew a couple of rows of Annabelle 1st earlies this year, in a new veg patch. Despite the rotten weather we were pleased with the crop - lovely spuds with gorgeous buttery flavour - the were very varied in size, each plant yielding some 'new potato' size and two or three much larger spuds - a little bit of scab but nothing to worry about.
About a week ago I noticed early signs of possible blight on the last couple of plants so immediately removed and burnt the haulms, leaving the potatoes in the ground until yesterday when we were ready to eat them - they were fine.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
My first earlies were 'Foremost', should have called them '4 at most' -very disappointing. My seconds were Charlottes which seemed OK but looked as though they were starting to get blight. My main crop are Maris Piper and King Edward, I dug up a couple of KE' today as they started to get the blight look, and they were very poor in both size and yield.
I think we're lucky this year in this new garden as it's fairly sheltered and the soil is a free-draining slightly gritty loam - the slugs don't seem to like the grittiness of it and it hasn't got too; waterlogged - next year when we have our usual drought you lot will be fine, and I'll be desperate for rain to fill my water butts
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I planted spuds for Christmas last week - Pentland Javelin, Dunluce, Nicola and Maris Bard.Not had the latter three before but grew Pentland Javelin in the early part of last year and they were reasonably good croppers, nice and tasty too.
Maris Bard sound to have been a good choice, has anyone tried Dunluce or Nicola?
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Thanks for your message. Our climates are similar, so wet this summer. I'll try again next year. You mentioned that Desiree had escaped; of my survivors most were that variety.
I planted Pink fir apple spuds this year and whilst im not laden down with them what i have got are reallt tasty. Im on the south coast so it has been really wet this year and lots of people have lost theirs to blight i seem to be lucky at the moment. Have grown the beef tomatoes in the greenhouse and they seem to be successful, the ones on the allotment are a waste of time. I have loads of runner beans, but the french are pretty hopeless. A bit of a hit and miss growing year, but theres always next year.
I put in Vivaldi and Lady Christl, dug up seven tops and got enough for about 3 dinners. Dreadful. Have some sarpo mira in a barrel which will leave for a few more weeks and hope to get a few more from that.
About to lift potatoes grown in a raised bed any ideas what I can plant in the spaceI left behind already have 3 courgette plants in this bed. This is my first year using 3 raised beds so any suggestions would be helpful also trying to rotate these is another problem as most articles show plans for 4 beds.
Bed 1 Potatoes,spinach (disaster slugs got the lot) and courgettes
Bed 2 Brussel sprouts and sprouting broccoli
Bed 3 Carrots, yellow beans (not good) and parsnips.
I dug up some potatoes today to find they had brown spots on them like phoatos blight,what can be the cause of this and how could i stop it,could it be the weather,
Sounds like common scab, certain varieties are prone to it, although weather and lime can be to blame.
It does not affect the eating quality, just scrape or peel the skin and the flesh underneath should be fine.
We grew a couple of rows of Annabelle 1st earlies this year, in a new veg patch. Despite the rotten weather we were pleased with the crop - lovely spuds with gorgeous buttery flavour - the were very varied in size, each plant yielding some 'new potato' size and two or three much larger spuds - a little bit of scab but nothing to worry about.
About a week ago I noticed early signs of possible blight on the last couple of plants so immediately removed and burnt the haulms, leaving the potatoes in the ground until yesterday when we were ready to eat them - they were fine.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
My first earlies were 'Foremost', should have called them '4 at most' -very disappointing. My seconds were Charlottes which seemed OK but looked as though they were starting to get blight. My main crop are Maris Piper and King Edward, I dug up a couple of KE' today as they started to get the blight look, and they were very poor in both size and yield.
I think we're lucky this year in this new garden as it's fairly sheltered and the soil is a free-draining slightly gritty loam - the slugs don't seem to like the grittiness of it and it hasn't got too; waterlogged - next year when we have our usual drought you lot will be fine, and I'll be desperate for rain to fill my water butts
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I planted spuds for Christmas last week - Pentland Javelin, Dunluce, Nicola and Maris Bard.Not had the latter three before but grew Pentland Javelin in the early part of last year and they were reasonably good croppers, nice and tasty too.
Maris Bard sound to have been a good choice, has anyone tried Dunluce or Nicola?