My first seed potatoes

[reetnproper]

Yesterday I bought a pack of 10 vales emerald seed potatoes (£1.99 at our local garden centre), placed them in 2 egg boxes and they now have pride of place on the dining room window, alongside my 2dds grass head monsters.

I'm soooooooo excited (how sad is that). I wanted to grow potatoes last year but never got around to it. Starting small, so that any mistakes wont be costly ones.

Next weekend, I'll be sowing the pepper seeds. Finally the growing season has arrived at our house and I'm so impatient. I'm wishing the year away again

Regards
Reet
xx

[HeyWayne]

If you think you're excited now - you wait until you see them sprouting out of the ground. If you then think that's exciting, you wait until it's time to start digging them up. If you think that's exciting - you wait until you cook your first harvest of spuds. If you think that's exciting...

No, that's it I think.

[Bigmallly]

If you think you're excited now - you wait until you see them sprouting out of the ground. If you then think that's exciting, you wait until it's time to start digging them up. If you think that's exciting - you wait until you cook your first harvest of spuds. If you think that's exciting...

No, that's it I think.

No, it's not..........wait till you taste 'em.

[Cosmo and Dibs]

Ah yes- the first exciting shoots! Great stuff.

But......the most satisfying thing is having them cooked and on your plate within an hour of digging up! Fresh!

[Comfreyfan]

And the really great thing is, you'll be just as excited next year and the year after and the year after and. . .

[solway cropper]

I can't stand any more of this excitement...I'm going for a lie down

[HeyWayne]

I can't stand any more of this excitement...I'm going for a lie down

I bet you dream of potatoes.

[Storming Norman]

I've currently got the rats about Vale Emeralds.

Put my order in with the hort assn here and ordered Lady Chrystl but they were substituted with Vale Emeralds. Why does that always happen when you really want to try a highly recommended variety?

Now I have 3kgs of potatoes I don't much want and have to search out the ones I do.

In fact the whole order came in vast bags full - nice they were reasonably priced but now seems wasteful.

I think I'm going to be giving a few away this year, better put a poster up at the lottie.

Still it's so good to be starting things into growth at last.

[ford1990]

Ive been growing potatoes since i got my first allotment and this is my third year, last year i had about a dozen buckets over all! I've just bought my seeds potatoes for this year so i'm hoping i do just aswell. You can't beat eating a meal that you've produced yourself. You shouldn't give them away though, i got quite a few free pints last year from my extra ones!

[reetnproper]

After promising myself that I was going to grow one variety of potatoes only this year - as it's my first attempt at potato growing - a trip to the garden centre for rat bait, chicken manure and seed potting compost also resulted in a packet of King Edward seed potatoes, making it back home .

[stella]

I think digging in the soil to see what is there is like digging for buried treasure. You find 1 then 2 than 6 and you just can not believe that there are not any more so you sift the soil and dig again and then move onto the next one. Great!

[crazii_c]

i ordered my first seed potatoes from marshalls im getting charlotte, swift and maris peer and they are coming with 3 grow sacks (coz im limited to space). however its been 2months now and they've not turned up. i was hoping to be chitting them now instead im still waiting. as im new to potatoes i was wondering whats the latest you can start chitting your first earlies?

[rustylady]

Don't worry crazii, plenty of time yet. Traditional time for planting spuds is Good Friday and that's a way off yet. I bought a few packs from the poundshop and they're sitting in egg trays on the bathroom windowsill. Not doing much, but at least they're not rotting or sending up long white shoots.

[leah]

Don't worry crazii, plenty of time yet. Traditional time for planting spuds is Good Friday and that's a way off yet. I bought a few packs from the poundshop and they're sitting in egg trays on the bathroom windowsill. Not doing much, but at least they're not rotting or sending up long white shoots.

are long white shoots bad? I just got some from b and q and I got the ones with about inch longh shoots, I just thought that was what would happen when they chit I'll take them back if they are wrong

[crazii_c]

cheers rustylady,

i can relax now and just look forward to them arriving