Harvesting potatoes
Andy shows how
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Fancy Home-Grown Potatoes for Christmas?
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These can be planted in larger pots or into the ground. Try Lady Christl, a lovely tasting potato with creamy to waxy flesh and oval pale yellow-skinned tubers. Great for boiling and for making chips. Or Carlingford, a Maris Peer-type potato with white skin and waxy flesh with a great ‘new potato’ taste out of More >
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Give your potatoes a boost – just add to compost to earth up your potatoes Only £4.99
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Now is the time to start chitting potatoes, especially main crops, to encourage early growth. Chitting potatoes As seed potatoes develop, buds appear on the potato. Sometimes, as shown in the photo below, a potato develops three good buds evenly apart on the potato. This is ideal! The potato shown above is ready for planting. More >
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Cut Buddleias severely to keep them compact. Give vigorous summer flowering shrubs a prune now to keep them compact and to encourage quality flowers. For further advice on pruning and garden care contact us or come and visit our garden centre for expert advice.
Time to prune Clematis
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