Comice-Pear

The Doyenne du Comice pear fruit is

• large
• broad
• an irregular shape
• yellow in colour, with a greenish tinge and a scattering of red brown spots and blotches
• very juicy with creamy white flesh
• aromatic with a tangy, sweet flavour

ComicePear

Gardening Direct will supply Comice Pear Trees.  The Doyenne du Comice is known as the Queen of the Pears. 

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He said he always grows Swift & has the first boiling in early May!  Here are some of the secrets I picked up:

·         Swift are the earliest variety, ready within 7 weeks of planting

·         Les plants Swift in January

·         He grows them in flower buckets

·         The buckets are kept in the greenhouse all the time

·         Swift only have short tops, so don’t fall over

·         Les pulls the plant out of the bucket, picks of the largest potatoes & returns the plant to the bucket to continue growing!

Swift is ‘The earliest early” according to the British Potato Council variety database.

 Characteristics of  Potato Variety:

·         exceptionally early maturing potato variety

·         good yields

·         attractive, medium sized potatoes

·         good skins

·         good cooking quality

Click this link to buy Swift new potatoes from Unwins

Swift is a very early potato variety!

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• long tubers
• shallow depth of eyes
• white skin
• light yellow flesh
• good resistance to late blight on foliage

Don has contacted TopVeg to say:

“ they taste really good, too. I am off to buy some Spunta seed today. The local farmers tipped me to place the starts in a lightproof box for about two weeks to get them to sprout. Then plant them. The only reason why they are not more widely grown is short storage time, so I grow them in planting stages throughout the growing season and consume them before they can go bad. I had fresh potatoes through January. They grow quickly.”

Thank you Don for sharing your experience of the Spunta potato variety.

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* high yielding
* numerous uniform attractive tubers
* good all round disease resistance, although it is slightly susceptible to Foliage Blight
* excellent cooking qualities & great flavour

Extra Early Salad Potato – Rocket

* firm, waxy texture tubers
* good for chipping
* responds well under polythene
* best under long day length conditions of Northern Europe

Very early – Winston

* good yields
* bold white tubers
* a very short growing season
* good drought and heat tolerance
* powdery scab resistance
* masher, chips,bake,roast

First Early Potato – Sharpes Express

* low resistance to dry rot, late blight on foliage and late blight on tubers

First Early Potato – Red Duke of York

* low resistance to late blight on foliage, late blight on tubers, common scab, potato leafroll virus and potato virus Yo .

First Early Potato – Maris Bard

TopVeg favourite!

* high yielding and early bulking
* good resistance to potato virus Y, gangrene, potato leaf roll virus, drought, damage and bruising
* moderately susceptible to spraing, powdery scab
* susceptible to potato cyst nematode
* medium dry matter with good boiling and frying quality
* good all round cooker

Second Early Potato – British Queen

* round tubers
* white skin

Second Early Potato – Charlotte

charlotte potato

 * moderate yields
* uniform, smooth skinned tubers
* high resistance to foliage and tuber blight
* susceptible to potato cyst nematode
* medium dry matter
* waxy cooked texture
* salad potato

Second Early Potato – Kestrel

kestrel-potato-variety

* good yields of very attractive, long oval, coloured tubers
* good all round cooking quality
* good chipping potential, particularly early in the season

Second Early Potato – Edzell Blue

* heritage variety
* very floury texture
* mashes & bakes well, though difficult to boil
* best known blue- skinned variety

Early (or new) potato varieties mature in 8 to 10 weeks, so are the first to be ready for eating.

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Bandit-leeks-growing

We have been harvesting Bandit leeks since Christmas & they are  still providing the kitchen with very tasty vegetables.  Bandit survived the very cold, snowy weather and not one plant has bolted.

Leek-Bandit-in-ground

Characteristics of Leek – Bandit F1 Hybrid:

• crops : November-April
• winter hardy
• rarely bolts
• rust resistant
• dark green leaves
• pure white, thick stems
• excellent flavour

bandit-cleaned-leek

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The Lincolnshire Scad is an old, but rare, variety of plum.

Lincolnshire Scad Plums are:

•  
  • small - marble size
  • orange on one side and yellow the other
  • ripen very late - in November
  • sweet

A Lincolnshire Scad plum tree:

•  
  • is actually a tall, thornless, bush
  • spreads by suckers
  • transplants easily
  • has oval leaves - 5cm long & 3cm wide

Lincolnshire Scad Plums are traditionally mixed with apples in a Scad & Apple Pie.  Does anyone have a photo of Lincolnshire Scad Plums?

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Vales Emerald :

• produces a large number of new potatoes
• matures quickly , making it a very early potato
• is a Maris Peer x Charlotte cross
• has red violet flowers

vales emerald potato seed

Uses of Vales Emerald:

• boil or steam
• serve hot or cold
• ideal salad potato

Click this link to buy some seed of the first early variety of potatoes  Vales Emerald 

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Accord potatoes are:

• first early
• disease resistant – Double eelworm resistant
• high yielding
• creamy fleshed
• very tasty 
• easy to grow
• ideal for containers, patio planters, a sunny balcony or roof terrace

Click this link to order some Accord seed potatoes, which are a first early variety.

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Premiere potatoes are:

• first early
• pale yellow-skinned
• yellow fleshed
• oval shape
• firm and dry texture
• good for chips, boiling, New Potatoes, & Salad Potato
• golden eelworm resistant

Click this link to buy some seed poatoes, variety Premiere.

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BlueDanubePotato

Properties of Blue Danube potato tubers:

• blue/purple skinned
• oval
• bright white flesh
• delicious
• general culinary use

The Blue Danube potato variety  has good resistance to:

• blackleg
• potato virus Yo
• dry rot
• potato leafroll virus
• potato blight – tubers have excellent blight resistance, although the foliage has only moderate resistance.

Click this link to buy some Blue Danube potato seed, which is an early main crop variety.

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