A Community Growing Initiative
It’s always a pleasure to visit Donna and Pat at the Cummings Park Community Flat, and it was great to pop in past today to see how well their potatoes are doing in the community garden. We were also chuffed to find out that…
Growing Update
So here are photos of how our seed potatoes growing in bags are doing. Not too bad apart from the Maris Pipers (see our previous post about those). Maris Peers and Charlottes to be lifted as soon as it stop raining! Let us know…
Let’s talk about diseases 😕 There are two main things that will impact on the growth of your potatoes – blight and blackleg. Blackleg will make the base of the stems look quite black and slimy. Blight starts with brown spots on the leaves…
It’s mid July and hopefully your potatoes are growing well. For some of you it may even be time to start lifting and eating them! The second earlies that we gave out, Maris Peer and Charlotte, should be ready after 13 weeks of you…
Derek from Niggfield allotments decided to lift a shaw of Setanta potatoes for us yesterday. Could have been left for a few weeks yet as the flowers were just passing and they would have gotten a lot bigger, but still got 0.6kg from the…
Sheena sent us these photos of the flowers on her Highland Burgundy Reds. The tubers are forming when the flowers are out, hope yours are as nice as this!
Our OSF Maris Bards Today we lifted our first early Maris Bards grown at home in our ACC bag. We planted three seed potatoes 12 weeks ago and got around 40 tatties out of these, weighing 1.5kg. Here are the photos of the shaws…
David and Norma sent us these photos of their Cara potatoes. The first two are from June 8th, the next three are just 3 weeks later! Looks like there will be a great crop!
Insch Primary Maris Bards
Teacher Rhona sent us a message We lifted our tatties today at Insch School. Didn’t manage to weigh them but one child counted 168. Everyone went home with a little bag full to cook at home as we didn’t get time to cook them…
