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Latest photos of potatoes

  • Starting to eat the last crop
    Drc726
  • Harvest
    Pimpernel
  • Attractive flowers of the Yetholm Gypsy.
    Scotsgran
  • Mr Littles' Yetholm Gypsy
    Scotsgran

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We have 212 photos of potatoes

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  • My Tatties
    Irish
  • Ship's supplies - potato "Pixie", in plastic compost bags, turned outside in, then placed in hessian sacks to look more "authentic".
    David
  • Sack of potatoes.
    David
  • First Early "Pixie"
    David
  • LOVE....ly     Potato
    Amy
  • First Earlies "Witchhill"
    David
  • First new potatoes ...   ' Rocket  '
    Amy
  • A few of our "First Earlies", ready to cook!
    David

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Growing Potatoes

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I came on this site because I wanted to grow potatoes and know timescales for planting/harvesting. I planted some 'tatty'...

6 comments

n3tyy

8 Nov, 2011
N3tyy

Oh wise forum of the green mantle

oh wise forum of the green mantle,at which point do new potatoes become old ones, that is the question. This evening about...

6 comments

vabascum

12 Jul, 2011
Vabascum

Potato Update 2011

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I am a potatoholic. I love potatoes and I love growing them. I mostly grow heritage varieties but I also like to try new...

12 comments

scotsgran

29 Jun, 2011
Scotsgran

first potatoes

just had my first new pots an they were delish i grew them under straw with a black plastick covering it was a bit of an...

1 comment

bogwitch

14 Jun, 2011
Bogwitch

My Potato Growing 2011

Vanessa

I have decided this year, because of all that is going on in my life, that I will grow only potatoes, in the veg department....

17 comments

scotsgran

7 Apr, 2011
Scotsgran

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Questions & advice on potatoes

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Good morning

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onetouch

16 Jan, 2010
Onetouch

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