The Lincolnshire Scad is an old, but rare, variety of plum.
Lincolnshire Scad Plums are:
A Lincolnshire Scad plum tree:
Lincolnshire Scad Plums are traditionally mixed with apples in a Scad & Apple Pie. Does anyone have a photo of Lincolnshire Scad Plums?
Vales Emerald :
vales emerald potato seed
Uses of Vales Emerald:
Click this link to buy some seed of the first early variety of potatoes Vales Emerald
Accord potatoes are:
Click this link to order some Accord seed potatoes, which are a first early variety.
The potato variety Premiere is a first early potato.
Premiere potatoes are:
Click this link to buy some seed poatoes, variety Premiere.
Blue Danube is an early maincrop potato variety. It was known as Adam Blue.
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Properties of Blue Danube potato tubers:
The Blue Danube potato variety has good resistance to:
Click this link to buy some Blue Danube potato seed, which is an early main crop variety.
The early broad bean variety, Express, matures quickly, thus producing a very early crop of broad beans.
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Broad Bean Express:
shelled-broad-beans-Express
Click this link to order the variety Express Broad Bean
Charlotte is a variety of potato which may be harvested early in the season.
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Charlotte:
Click this link to buy the early potato variety Charlotte.
Asterix is a variety of potatoes which is mainly grown commercially for processing.
Asterix potatoes are:
Asterix is a late maincrop potato variety, mainly grown on a large scale for processing.
Rooster is a variety of potatoes which is becoming more & more popular.
Rooster is a versatile potato suitable for:
Find out how to grow potatoes in this book from Amazon:
Who wants new potatoes at Christmas?
Christmas-new-potatoes
In our house it is the gardener – but when the gardener becomes the head of the table, he wants roast potatoes around the turkey and mashed potatoes with his gravy. The subtle flavour of freshly dug new potatoes, cooked with carefully preserved mint, is not appreciated.
This is the first year we have successfully grown new potatoes and harvested them on Christmas day. The seed potato varieties Carlingford and Vivaldi were planted in late July, under a polytunnel, and we have been enjoying them since November.
The polytunnel reduces the risk of frost, but in severe frosty weather the soil would have to be covered (eg with fleece) so that the soil & potatoes do not freeze.
Christmas-dug-potatoes
When we dug the new potatoes on Christmas morning, they had bulked up considerably, and were so big that they had to be cut in half before cooking. This was in spite of a severe attack of potato blight early on. Late sown potatoes are more vulnerable to blight at a very early stage, because as soon as they come out, and the first leaves emerge, they are likely to be in a blight period.
So, because the new potatoes are quite large we will probably plant some in August next year. But a few will be planted in July, just in case blight catches the August lot.
Click the link to buy some Carlingford or Vivaldi seed potatoes to grow new potatoes for Christmas.
The challenge of extending the potato season and harvesting new potatoes at Christmas is still there, but who really wants them with a traditional Christmas dinner?
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