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2 * Potato Barrels Ordered.

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  • 06-04-2011 3:31pm
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    Dummy
    Registered Users Posts: 984 ✭✭✭


    Hi there,

    We are just about to start growing our own. I will have scaffolding planks tomorrow evening and should have my raised beds in over the weekend. We are going to start this year with what we consider easy - lettuce, spring onion & beetroot.

    I have just ordered 2 potato barrels. But I have no idea what variety of potato I should be planting at this time of year. We eat a lot of salads & potato salad would be very nice.

    Can anyone recommend a nice variety of potato, for the novice grower?


    Rgds,


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    shawnee
    Registered Users Posts: 1,830 ✭✭✭shawnee


    british queen is a very nice floury second early potato. ( would also be appropriate in the year thats in it):D


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    Zuiderzee
    Closed Accounts Posts: 593 ✭✭✭Zuiderzee


    I like Orla or Ciara as an early, but a lot of salad people like fir apple.
    Use one barrel for earlies, the other for maincrop I guess.

    As a main crop I'd recommend Setanta or one of the new Spiro types that are said to be blight resistant.
    I'd still keep an eye http://gardenplansireland.com/forum/ on the right hand panel for their blight warning service though.

    Personally, I would have gone to a tyre centre and asked them for/ blagged some old tyres rather than shell out on the barrel, but if you want to expand, then tyres are an option in the future.
    I'm doing a tyre stack for Oca this year in the hope that the heat and height gives bigger tubers and a heavier crop


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    Dummy
    Registered Users Posts: 984 ✭✭✭Dummy


    Thank you both very much for your suggestions.

    I had read about using tyres but I knew I would not be allowed to construct something like this in the garden. But when I had wife & kids talked into growing our own, I had to strike while the iron was still hot, and order in the barrels. Family momentum is important in this project.

    Thank you again.


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    skywalker_208
    Registered Users Posts: 1,350 ✭✭✭skywalker_208


    I grew Maris Piper last year and they turned out quite well.

    Went for Sharpes Express and British Queen this year for a change.


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    Dummy
    Registered Users Posts: 984 ✭✭✭Dummy


    Thanks Skywalker.

    It's interesting that both you & Shawnee mentioned British Queens. They will go into one of the barrels.


    Rgds,

    D.


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    Sgt Pepper 64
    Registered Users Posts: 9,627 ✭✭✭Sgt Pepper 64


    skywalker_208 wrote: »
    I grew Maris Piper last year and they turned out quite well.

    Went for Sharpes Express and British Queen this year for a change.

    Cant go wrong with Sharpes express


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    Zuiderzee
    Closed Accounts Posts: 593 ✭✭✭Zuiderzee


    My mistake on the fir apple, apparently the French salad potato is Ratte, the other one I was thinking of is an English salad type - pink fir apple


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