Potatoes

27
Mar, 2018 By Sally Osgerby

Champ – an Irish Potato Recipe

Champ is an Irish recipe of mashed potatoes with butter and spring onions (scallions if you are in Ireland!) Ingredients: 4 pounds (1.8kg) potatoes 1/2 pint (300ml) milk 1 cup (225g) chopped spring onions 1/2 cup (110g) butter Salt and
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11
Feb, 2018 By Sally Osgerby

Seed Potatoes Mixed!

We have opened the packet of seed potatoes we bought from the garden centre on 4 February and found a mixed bunch! There are 4 large potatoes, 4 medium sized and 2 tiny ones.  We prefer large seed potatoes as
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11
Feb, 2018 By Sally Osgerby

Maris Bard – First early potatoes

Today we bought some Maris Bard potato seed.  Maris Bard are a first early, that is a very early potato, and the variety is a TopVeg favourite!  We like the flavour and they keep well in the soil. The photo
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05
Jan, 2018 By Sally Osgerby

Planting Potatoes

We started planting seed potatoes on 12 February in 2011,  not because conditions were ideal, but because work was taking Mike abroad, & he would be away for 4 weeks. Luckily the soil had been covered with a plastic sheet
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06
Jul, 2017 By Sally Osgerby

How to Make Vegetable Crisps – Recipe

Vegetables make healthy snacks – vegetable crisps are delicious. Most root vegetables make tasty crisps: potatoes parsnips carrots sweet potato beetroot   Recipe for vegetable crisps: slice veg thinly with a potato peeler if using potatoes – wash the slices
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29
Jun, 2017 By Sally Osgerby

Caliente mustard reduces potato cyst nematodes.

This post contains affiliate links. Caliente Mustard: reduces potato cyst nematodes improves soil structure – as a green manure suppresses soil disease and weeds – as a  biofumigant Caliente Mustard produces a naturally occurring biofumigant gas (isothiocyanate (ITC)) when its
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07
Jun, 2017 By Sally Osgerby

Potato Blight Disease

TopVeg has (inadvertently) demonstrated that potato blight spreads in warm wet weather. When the weather was warm and wet, and for some reason a cloche had been put over half the potato row, so covering those potato leaves and keeping
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02
Jun, 2017 By Sally Osgerby

Unwanted Potato Plants

In spring, unwanted potato plants appear in the vegetable garden.  They can grow from tiny potatoes which were missed last year, or even from parts of damaged potatoes which were left in the ground previously. These potatoes, from the previous
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14
May, 2017 By Sally Osgerby

When to Plant Seed Potatoes.

When to plant seed potatoes depends on many factors: variety of potato location of potato plot weather condition of soil protection available Potato varieties can be divided into three main types & each type has a different growing season: New
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30
Apr, 2017 By Sally Osgerby

Size of Seed Potatoes

This year we made sure that the size of the seed potatoes we plant are at the higher end of the scale. Larger seed potatoes: have more vigour grow quicker emerge sooner will be ready for harvest earlier Seed potatoes sold
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