A Community Growing Initiative
Our OSF Maris Peers We took up two shaws from our allotment and the two seeds we planted in our ACC bags this week. The photo of the bag is just before we cut the shaws down – you can see the withering of…
Arrangements for the return of your potatoes We have been asked by many of you who are harvesting their potatoes how to go about giving some of them back to us. We have decided that any potatoes you return will be used for hosting…
Our OSF Charlottes Today we lifted one shaw of our second early Charlotte from the allotment and also the two from our ACC bags. The allotment shaw got 14 potatoes and 1.0 kg from our one seed, whilst the ones in the bag got…
Maiya Meerkat, and the Dinonamic Duo Kearney & Rose have been busy growing salad blue potatoes from our project. Apparently the taste tests have been given two paws up so far. Thanks to Sabrina for sending the photos and updates – they will be…
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…
