Who would buy a tin with just one potato in it? Much better value to have 10 of those small ones in the tin.
Seed Potatoes for Sale- Are they Having a laugh?
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Who would buy a tin with just one potato in it? Much better value to have 10 of those small ones in the tin.
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Is that why beans are so small?
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blightymam
I've always thought it was a way of selling off the small ones they are dug up with the larger ones. Spuds grow at different rates from the same plant. So if the small ones don't meet customer expectations or quality control, they sell em off as small spuds and market them as a good thing or trendy. Same as why in bags of King Edwards and Maris pipers you no longer get large spuds mixed in there (and both varieties can grow really big), they take em out and sell them as jacket potatoes - and charge more for them.
But then am always a bit cynical of the food industry!
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durhamplumber
no gardener but must be some reason for planting seed spuds.seed onions etc.my dad is keen gardener.he would not dream of planting ordinary spud to grow more spuds..must ask him.
Plenty of diseases that affect potatoes but the main two are blight and club-root. Blight is basically a given, the idea is to get the spuds in early enough so that by the time they get hit by blight they have developed plenty of new tubers. If you plant late you run the risk of getting blight while the plant is still developing tubers and so a reduced yield. This is my understanding. Spuds are easy to grow because of how much you get and how little you have to do, but yeah it's not an economical crop if you see your allotment as a real means of food production and not just somewhere to potter about with a spade.
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Packet of Smash, add boiling water,
Bingo! Plate of mashed potato.
Does any one else remember the advert, was it in black and white?
Tim
Bingo! Plate of mashed potato.
Does any one else remember the advert, was it in black and white?
Tim
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The problem I have with runner beans is that I eat them straight of the plant, green/blackfly as well, the beans are so delicious raw there's never enough to cook. As for smash, Iceland frozen mash is the way to go.
I have at times brought seed potatoes , specifically if I want to try a particular variety. Last year I tried homeguard an early potatoe and also a blue salad potatoe. There have been times when I have planted several known varieties and kept a record of yield , taste , texture and suchlike. On the whole , however , I use some of last years crop to start again. I also used to plant what I termed "bin taters " . These were potatoes found in customers bins. I do a bit of grass cutting and naturally thus have access to bins and used to find more than enough. I say "used to" because we are now not allowed to put kitchen waste in the same bin as garden waste so that avenue of obtaining spuds has all but dried up.
Incidentally on the subject of small potatoes there are always some really tiny ones , marbles we tend to call them which we don't like to waste. Washed and placed whole onto a baking tray with oil , onion , peppers , sometimes garlic and maybe just a touch of marmite and roasted , hmmmmm...
Incidentally on the subject of small potatoes there are always some really tiny ones , marbles we tend to call them which we don't like to waste. Washed and placed whole onto a baking tray with oil , onion , peppers , sometimes garlic and maybe just a touch of marmite and roasted , hmmmmm...
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blightymam
Apart from being a weirdo eating raw runner beans & bugs, aren't they supposed to be cooked because they're a bit toxic otherwise?!
I highly recommend boiling them then serve them with fried onion and soy sauce (and bacon if not a veggie). Yum.
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blightymam
I thought clubroot was mainly any of the brassica family? I could be mistaken.
Actually, come to think of it, I asked my father in law to save me some of his fav spuds and let them sprout so I would plant them and last year I lost most of them to blackleg - rotting of the stem. Apparently that's not so common on seed spuds.
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Doggit
If he hasn't poisened himself yet, then he should be okay, but you're right Blighty, the cooking destroys the toxins in them.
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It's been years since I have needed to buy seed potatos, I simply select some of my crop, put them aside in the potting shed and bring them out in the Spring, le thems shoot, chit them and plant them.. Agreed supermarket spuds are easier but the bulk of my crop are purple... I bought some in a supermarket years ago and decided that I like purple potatos. I also do a mean line in runner beans, which I hate (But I like the flowers as do the bees) and cucumbers to go with my gin.. Drink the gin, chuck the cucumber.. More to my liking are my fruit trees and bushes, pride of my garden is my wonderful walnut tree and one day I will actually get a crop of nuts before the pesky squirrel gets them..
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Doggit
No you won't, not unless you get rid of them first. It's the squirells chucking the shells down that tells you the nuts are ripe, and by then, it's too late.
Yeah you're right, got my terms mixed up. It's where they roots are all dangly and there are no tubers, you're right it's blackleg
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