I Blame Sir Francis Drake...

[VirginVegGrower]

Anyone else gone overboard The Golden Hind and bought so many seed potatoes that they are having to find additional ground to grow them in? Just over a hundred so far and another ninety to go...I need a field or tater therapy.

[mrbadexample]

How many of you are there eating them? I've sown about 20, which is a lot.

[VirginVegGrower]

How many of you are there eating them? I've sown about 20, which is a lot.

Ooh a family of four plus some neighbours and close family
But you are correct, I have sown a lot

We like potatoes and I like to store the mains to keep us going through the year. Will run out in about two to three weeks I reckon...so that's not too bad.

[Thelma Sanders]

Anyone else gone overboard The Golden Hind and bought so many seed potatoes that they are having to find additional ground to grow them in?.

The too many spuds conundrum happens to me every year, I think it's a common complaint

[VirginVegGrower]

The too many spuds conundrum happens to me every year, I think it's a common complaint

Thank goodness - thought it was just me! All the coloured ones I'm growing for my mother:- Shetland Black, Salad Blue, Edzell Blue, Highland Burgundy Red. Couldn't just buy a few tubers mixed though as they came in those prepacked bags...sigh! That lot alone added 32 I didn't need.

[Snadger]

I bought a bag of Pink Fir Apple seed potatoes which I didn't particularily want (but thats another story).

Dibbled in three rows at about 18" spacing between spuds using the biggest ones. When I'd finished I still had two thirds left so went round and dropped two more smaller PFA spuds in the same holes.
I don't mind PFA, but I didn't want my allotment full of them.

PS Put a couple of tubular framed tables minus the tops over them as I know from past experience how BIG PFA foliage can be!I will have the supports in place before they reach that height (about 5 foot last time)

[Pa Snips]

Just fifteen on the go here, but then there's only my wife and I to consume them, my bro' doesn't do cooking and I don't really have any other friends or family which means....more for me!

[VirginVegGrower]

I bought a bag of Pink Fir Apple seed potatoes which I didn't particularily want (but thats another story).

Dibbled in three rows at about 18" spacing between spuds using the biggest ones. When I'd finished I still had two thirds left so went round and dropped two more smaller PFA spuds in the same holes.
I don't mind PFA, but I didn't want my allotment full of them.

PS Put a couple of tubular framed tables minus the tops over them as I know from past experience how BIG PFA foliage can be!I will have the supports in place before they reach that height (about 5 foot last time)

I've got PFA to go in somewhere too. Maybe in with my beans and they can be ready made supports. I need another allotment!

[Aberdeenplotter]

I thought it was Walter Raleigh introduced spuds to the UK. Francis Drake is innocent.

[salome2001]

I had it all worked out until my lottie neighbour pressed 5 more Edgell Blues into my hand and waxed lyrical about how it is heirloom and won't the blue spuds be a novelty for the kids... not only are they not chitted, I think they are going to have to go in compost bags

VVG I sympathise with you regarding having to buy bags of seed potatoes. Our allotment association gets them in in huge sacks and sells them by weight (whatever mix of spuds you want). Might be worth seeing if you can source them that way. Otherwise try to find "taster packs" of five each (only discovered this last year after buying 2.5kg of one variety for 2 patio tubs!)

[solway cropper]

I've got 122 in so far, dotted all over the garden and not just in the veg plot. There's only three of us to eat them but we like spuds.

Trouble is I'd already got my order from JBA then remembered there was a local potato day to attend. Well, what's a chap to do? You can't go to a potato day and come away empty handed

[veggiechicken]

I thought it was Walter Raleigh introduced spuds to the UK. Francis Drake is innocent.

I'm listening AP, even if no one else is!!

[binley100]

I didn't think I'd planted that many .......this thread has made me do a quick count up ..
33 rocket
12 pentland Javelin
33 kestrel
33 desiree or thereabouts

think thats plenty ........

[VirginVegGrower]

I thought it was Walter Raleigh introduced spuds to the UK. Francis Drake is innocent.

Is he - well I blame him too.

[VirginVegGrower]

I had it all worked out until my lottie neighbour pressed 5 more Edgell Blues into my hand and waxed lyrical about how it is heirloom and won't the blue spuds be a novelty for the kids... not only are they not chitted, I think they are going to have to go in compost bags

VVG I sympathise with you regarding having to buy bags of seed potatoes. Our allotment association gets them in in huge sacks and sells them by weight (whatever mix of spuds you want). Might be worth seeing if you can source them that way. Otherwise try to find "taster packs" of five each (only discovered this last year after buying 2.5kg of one variety for 2 patio tubs!)

We don't have an allotment association as they are Parish Council owned. I and another plot holder tried to get us all together as an allotment unit, but it fell on deaf ears. I have never seen packs under eight to ten tubers, which is a pain. Good luck with the Edzells...