looked in the cupboard and found half a bag of white spuds from morrisons that had gone to seed so ive planted them how do u think will do all i no is it just said white spuds
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Not a lot of hope really. They have a race against time: blight & the cold. Spuds take about 3 months from seed to plate, at their quickest. That takes you into November.
I know that people plant spuds for X**s, but that's in containers in a greenhouse, and there's never a whole lot of successAll gardeners know better than other gardeners." -- Chinese Proverb.
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Originally posted by Two_Sheds View PostI know that people plant spuds for X**s, but that's in containers in a greenhouse, and there's never a whole lot of success
I've just planted 6 sacks worth
Give me some hopeCaro
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However, if you don't dig up all of this year's crop and just leave them in the ground, they will grow like the clappers & be sprouting up everywhere next May !!All gardeners know better than other gardeners." -- Chinese Proverb.
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Originally posted by Two_Sheds View PostI know that people plant spuds for X**s, but that's in containers in a greenhouse, and there's never a whole lot of success
Most people have very little success getting new potatoes at Christmas time. Normal spuds should keep easily until Christmas. If you really want new potatoes,move to Australia!
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Originally posted by maypril View PostYup, in fact some would say that "new potatoes at xmas" is a scam conjured up by the seed companies to sell seed potatoes well and truely out of season!
Most people have very little success getting new potatoes at Christmas time. Normal spuds should keep easily until Christmas. If you really want new potatoes,move to Australia!
I've always wondered how they did it, if I did it here, even in the greenhouse, they would die off way too early from frost."Orinoco was a fat lazy Womble"
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Brockie-not really what you wanted to hear is it???
You never know though....
are they in tubs or in the ground?
Try a bit of an experiment- they'd have gone in the bin anyway!
Caro- I'm presuming yours are in the ground???"Nicos, Queen of Gooooogle" and... GYO's own Miss Marple
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Hi Nicos,
No in potato grow sacks, which will be moved into the greenhouse later. I'm staying optimistic though, so nyah nyah to you lot
Also, you experts probably all get huge crops from everything you grow, my winter harvest may not be all that much different from my meagre beginner's summer harvest and I'll be back boasting how great it worked
If, on the other hand, I have nothing but a bag of soil with a few rotten seed potatoes in it, you'll not hear back from me on the subject at allCaro
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Im growing in potoato bags for xmas and using Tattiemans tip and mixing shredded paper (free from a local office) to bulk out the potting compost mixed with sterile topsoil and a few hand fulls of spent hops (free from the local brewery).. and some mint roots in one of the sacks as an experiment.
Also i dug up 10lbs of self seeded orphan pots growing all over my pea patch from my last years crop in my back garden.
Also, the wilja in my allotment have yealed about 2lb per plant.. just dug up the last row today.. Romano's next in a couple of weeks.. had a furtle and the seem fine.
roger
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I've tried them for a few years, no joy. But am going again this year, this time I have a polytunnel. I notice Brockie you set yours on 4th Aug - I guess I should get going with mine. I'd been thinking of about mid-Sept, but having read your post, I'll put them down by the weekend.My hopes are not always realized but I always hope (Ovid)
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