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Trixie74
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 Spud Growing Innovation Managed to significantly over order on the tatties - mainly due to indecision about which to get and ordering the lot.
Has anyone got any spacesaving or unusual ways I can plant these.
Have a large area of allotment for most, a little plot at home and a small raised bed at work - and some heavy duty bags to fill with compost.
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| Tue Mar 06, 2012 8:39 pm |
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peter
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Re: Spud Growing Innovation Whilst dressed as Darth Vader? 
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adam-alexander
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Re: Spud Growing Innovation I think that you have answered your own question really. - If you have a few seed pots left over, why not offer them to fellow plotholders, neighbours or Freecycle- better tha waste I would say.
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| Tue Mar 06, 2012 8:47 pm |
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Trixie74
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Re: Spud Growing Innovation Maybe I need to stress less about my spuds.
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solway cropper
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Re: Spud Growing Innovation I usually end up with more seed potatoes than I can accommodate so I just bung em in any old containers I can find and stick them wherever there's space. As a last resort I give em away. I like potatoes 
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peter
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Re: Spud Growing Innovation Plant some closer together in the row than the book says.
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oldherbaceous
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Re: Spud Growing Innovation I often work out how many i'm going to be putting in a row, then if there are 3 or 4 too many, i just put a couple of the smaller ones in the same hole together. Seems to work alright. 
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Monika
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Re: Spud Growing Innovation That's why I like ordering my seed potatoes from Thompson and Morgan, because they sell them by number of potatoes (10, 20, 40), rather than weight. I know that on all our beds, a row will take 20 potatoes, so I order accordingly. There are usually one or two more in the pack in any case, so one gets some spares.
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solway cropper
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Re: Spud Growing Innovation I wish I could afford to pay Thompson & Morgan prices 
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Johnboy
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Re: Spud Growing Innovation Hi Solway Cropper,
Would you care to tell us where you get your genuine seed potatoes from?
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Trixie74
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Re: Spud Growing Innovation I got mine from JBA Seed Potatoes - seemed a reasonable price compared to garden centers and they have a fantastic range (salad blue yum) http://www.jbaseedpotatoes.co.uk/
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glallotments
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Re: Spud Growing Innovation Monika wrote: That's why I like ordering my seed potatoes from Thompson and Morgan, because they sell them by number of potatoes (10, 20, 40), rather than weight. I know that on all our beds, a row will take 20 potatoes, so I order accordingly. There are usually one or two more in the pack in any case, so one gets some spares. Alan Romans sell in 10, 20 ,60 tubers in a bag. Trouble is postage charges when growing on line as potatoes are heavy!
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Trixie74
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Re: Spud Growing Innovation JBA were in 10 tuber, 2.5kg, 5kg or 25kg.
I got 2.5kg and shared with someone (11 types!! a bit overkill) and the postage was only £5.
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JohnN
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Re: Spud Growing Innovation I have two local "Horticultural Society" stores which supply just about everything, including seed spuds by the number, for basic prices. Don't they have such co-operatives in other parts of the country? This year I'm trying some "Lady C" - don't know if that means Lady Chatterley, but she was no small potatoes! 
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FelixLeiter
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Re: Spud Growing Innovation JohnN wrote: This year I'm trying some "Lady C" Lady Christl I should think. @Trixie74: Early potatoes can be spaced much closer than maincrop varieties. If you want extra-early potatoes you'll likely harvest them before they are fully mature, which means that they can be spaced closer still.
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