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Potatoes :: With over 500 varieties avalable the choice is yours.

Growing Potatoes

Potatoes like a deep rich soil, plant seedling potatoes in a trench and as they grow pile the earth up around them. This stops the potatoes from being exposed to light and going green. (Green potatoes can upset the stomach, so avoid them) This process also helps produce more potatoes as they tend to form on roots near the surface, as you pile up the soil, new roots, new potatoes, more potatoes.... Try a good organic fertilizer, blood and bone, seaweed extract, fish or liquid comfrey. Keep the water up and away you go. Potatoes can also be grown in stacks of old care tyres, plant the seed potatoes at the bottom, let them grow to about 50cm, place a tyre over the top and add 8cm of soil, let hem grow a little more, add some more soil, add another tyre and so on, in the end a stack of potatoes.Once the lower leaves start to die back its time to harvest the potatoes. You can harvest all of them at once or from the top down a tyre at a time. This process can aslo work with other tube like structures. If you plan to store your potatoes, cut off the foliage and let the potatoes rest in the ground for 3-4 weeks to allow the skin to 'set', they keep longer this way. Store in a dark, cool, well ventilated spot.

Roasting Potatoes include: Arran, Royal Blue, Cara, Celine, Desiree, Maxine, Picasso, Ruby Lou, Romano, King Edward, Kondor, Maris Piper, Stemster and Valor.

For Chips try: Nadine,Kestrel, King Edward, Desiree, Kennebec.

For Boiling try: Nadine, Dutch Cream Kestrel, Desiree, King Edward.

For Mashing try: Kestrel, Nadine, King Edward.

For Salads try: Nicola,Ponfine.

For something different try: Salad Blue, with purple flesh it looks great mashed and roasted.


Buying Seed Potatoes

Always grow potatoes fron Certified Grade Seed Potatoes from reputable suppliers. Yes it is possible to buy some from a specialist green grocer and keep them for seed, or use leftover potato peelings. However, you do run the risk of introducing diseases if you use leftovers or buy from supermarkets or green grocers. So we recommend that you always buy certified seed potatoes.


Seed Potato suppliers for the Uk

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VEGETABLE PLANTS DIRECT
Vegetable plants direct is a family run mail order company based near Bude In Cornwall specialising in vegetable plants with over 400 varieties for you to choose from including over 60 varieties of tomato many of which are rare heritage ones. We also supply bedding and basket plants as well as herbs and many other plants.


  DEFLAND NURSERIES LIMITED
Benwick Road, Doddington March, Cambs. PE15 OTU
tel. 01354 740553 fax 01354 741200

Specializing in Organic Plants for Garden Allotments. Vegetable, Salad, Herb, Strawberry and Ornamental Plants


 
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