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Icyberjunkie · Posted: Fri Dec 15, 2006 11:29 am Post subject:

Well as the update......the rubbing or not didn't seem to have any significant effect! No idea which end of the rows were which but they were pretty much all the same size and quantity. Confused

Not gonna bother next year they can just be bunged!

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"Still other seed fell on good soil. It came up, grew and produced a crop,multiplying thirty, sixty, or even a hundred times" Mark 4, v8

redimp · Posted: Fri Dec 15, 2006 3:22 pm Post subject:

I found the same Icy - didn't make a didly squate of difference. Also, could not tell the difference between where I had planted two small ones or one big one - yield and size seemed about the same Confused

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baggy · Joined: 16 Jan 2006 Posts: 1304 Location: Kent

JAGS wrote:

He got a whopper and it was the talk of the allotments
Shocked

And quite rightly so.

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Get with the beat Baggy

Flowerlady · Joined: 15 Jan 2006 Posts: 3336 Location: Herts

This year ... "Blight Busters" ?? !!

Early MainCrop - Lady Balfour

T&M "Uses - boil / general purpose. Oval pink splashed tubers with firm, moist creamy flash. Impressive blight resistance and double eelworm resistane. Huge yields, even in poorer soils. Stores well Ideal for Organic Gardener!"

Late Main Crop - Sapro Mira

T&M "Uses A real all rounder for cooking purposes. Unprecedented blight resistance, huge yields of tasty, floury tubers in a range of soils types, vigorooous weed suppressing foliage, long storage. Tubers do not appear to be affected by slugs."

... how can one not grow these !! Rolling Eyes

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Gulp ...
I love my vegetable garden. So here is my sad ballad: I nurtured it for months, And ate it in one salad!

redimp · Posted: Thu Jan 10, 2008 5:53 pm Post subject:

One cannot grow these cos one cannot afford T&M's rip off postage for potatoes when one gets seed through ones lotty society.

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Flowerlady · Joined: 15 Jan 2006 Posts: 3336 Location: Herts

so I take it one will not be indulging !! ?? Very Happy

But I will be growing Valor Wink

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Gulp ...
I love my vegetable garden. So here is my sad ballad: I nurtured it for months, And ate it in one salad!

redimp · Posted: Thu Jan 10, 2008 6:28 pm Post subject:

One has grown Valor before and they performed alright. In fact, I think I may have ordered those this year as my guarentee against blight. Can't remember exactly what I ordered - tis buried round here somewhere. Confused

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redimp · Posted: Thu Jan 10, 2008 6:32 pm Post subject:

Whooops - despite losing nearly the whole crop to dodgy weather and blight last year, I seem to have paid no heed:

Quote:

I have settled upon:
1sts:
Red Duke of York
Home Guard (I wanted Foremost, Debbie wanted these)
2nds:
Kestrel
Maris Peer
Mains:
Desiree
Picasso
(King Eds to be bought from local GC nearer the time - hopefully)

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Flowerlady · Joined: 15 Jan 2006 Posts: 3336 Location: Herts

one really should pay heed to the little successes in life !!

T&M "Uses General purpose - has double eelworm and blight resistance. Exceptional yields."

... and one can vouch for that! Very Happy

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Gulp ...
I love my vegetable garden. So here is my sad ballad: I nurtured it for months, And ate it in one salad!

wardy · Posted: Fri Jan 11, 2008 11:54 am Post subject:

mine on order from lotty shed anorl but I did get some from Fothergills. Dint pay postage I don't fink Confused