Our Red Duke of York was lifted as a first early last month. We got over 2kg from the seed potatoes but did have a bit of potato scab on the ones from our containers as you can see on the second photo. The…

We finally have a picture of our school garden project banner. One Seed Forward and the University of Aberdeen are “Cultivating Education” in local school gardens!

King Edward Primary School, Banff

King Edward took part in our seed potato project this year and Audrey sent us some photos of them harvesting their tatties. They have decided to give them to Trinity Chruch, Banff who are going to make a tattie salad with them and share…

Bramble Brae Primary School

We have had a lot of fun with the pupils at Bramble Brae Primary School this year as part of our OSF School Garden Project. Yesterday they harvested peas, beetroot, lettuce, onions, kale and a lot of potatoes. In total they got 224 Maris…

Potatoes on 24/6/18

Here is an update on our potatoes in containers, boxes, buckets and bags! It won’t be long until we start lifting our first earlies – stay tuned!

Potatoes at 6/5/18

Here is an update on how our seed potatoes in bags and containers are doing. Planted five weeks ago, the first earlies are coming on well whilst the others are of course a bit slower. After taking these photos we covered all of the…

Building a compost bin

As part of our School Garden Project we built a compost bin at Woodside Primary from recycled pallets. It is easy to do – just follow our step by step instructions!    

Planting 2/4/18

We’ve planted! We decided to go for it on Easter Monday and our container growing seed potatoes are in. As an experiment we have used a variety of containers this season including a cardboard box, bucket, specialist potato sack as well as the recycled…

Chitting 31/03/18

Here are our 11 varieties of seed potatoes chitting away on our windowsill. A lot of these are ready to get in the soil – ideally a minimum of 1cm of shoots should be coming out of the seeds as this will speed up…

All Gone 😊

We had a great day at Hazlehead Park on Saturday as part of the Green Family Fun Day event. We took the final 80kg of our seed potatoes with us, and here are the last family to get our potatoes for this season. Let’s…