tip on growing potatoes - Page 3

elshaper · 14-01-2017, 06:05 PM

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Originally Posted by cosmic tramp

Polish butter too ? Now yer talkin'. Tastes like vanilla ice cream. If you haven't tried real Polish creamery butter from a Polski Sklep then do so. It is addictive...all organic too.

sounds delicious. mnn yeah but poland is an iffy area from Chernobyl fallout i.e. radioactive butter?

cosmic tramp · 14-01-2017, 08:25 PM

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Originally Posted by elshaper

sounds delicious. mnn yeah but poland is an iffy area from Chernobyl fallout i.e. radioactive butter?

Western Doom Pornpropaganda that. There's a lot of cak talked about Poland re all that. Geographically it's a massive country compared to UK, probably one of the most eco friendly countries in the world. Farmers so poor they couldn't afford pesticides and artificial fertilisers so everything's organic. It's 70% green as Britain was back in Shakespeare's day. Even McDonalds wouldn't accept Polish potatoes for their fries at first, as they couldn't get them to the correct centimetre specification.

Polish beef tastes like beef ( a 24oz steak there costs about £2) as it should.

magritte · 22-01-2017, 10:45 PM

You can buy Oca tubers here. They are andean tubers like potatos and you can earth them up in the same way. Apparently they are traditionally grown after potatos as they use different nutrients in the soil. I have been growing them for a few years and I like them (kind of like potato with sour cream).

Also you can graft potatos to other nightshades like tomatos, peppers and aubergine. That way you can get a root crop as well as a fruit if you are low on space.

mollymag4 · 22-01-2017, 11:01 PM

I know someone who grew potatoes in old tires. That is, the first layer of soil with the seed potato was within the rim of the first tire. As the top of the plant grew, another tire and more soil was added--the second tire sitting upon the first. And then when the top of the plant grew more, a third tire was added. I think he got to only 3 tires when it was time to dig up the potatoes. Don't know if the rubber, nylon etc. from the tires leached into the soil or not. He didn't complain about it.

tom bombadil · 23-01-2017, 06:58 PM

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Originally Posted by mollymag4

I know someone who grew potatoes in old tires. That is, the first layer of soil with the seed potato was within the rim of the first tire. As the top of the plant grew, another tire and more soil was added--the second tire sitting upon the first. And then when the top of the plant grew more, a third tire was added. I think he got to only 3 tires when it was time to dig up the potatoes. Don't know if the rubber, nylon etc. from the tires leached into the soil or not. He didn't complain about it.

He wasn't a big fat bloke was he? Dresses in white! Gives out lots of culinary stars to restaurants?

mollymag4 · 24-01-2017, 12:06 AM

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Originally Posted by tom bombadil

He wasn't a big fat bloke was he? Dresses in white! Gives out lots of culinary stars to restaurants?

No, actually he was quite thin and mainly wore black. Is there someone else out there who mainly wears white who does the tire and potato thing? I don't watch tv and don't live in the UK, so have limited exposure to points for culinary products.

mollymag4 · 24-01-2017, 12:08 AM

I was recently in the Philippines where I tried a vegetable called ube--a purple sweet potato. Very sweet, too sweet in my opinion, but widely loved and used by Filippinos. They even make cakes with it. Not much taste except very sweet. Anyone else tried ube?

roastpotatoes · 27-01-2017, 07:53 PM

I'm showing my age here ... this advert still makes me laugh, but I hated Smash.

Nothing like the real thing.

cosmic tramp · 31-01-2017, 04:37 PM

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Originally Posted by roastpotatoes

I love potatoes, that's why I chose my user name.

Home-made chips, baked potatoes, mashed potatoes, sauteed potatoes and most definitely roast potatoes!

The best way to make roast potatoes is to boil them first, but not so they get soggy. After draining them, fluff the outsides with a fork and then sprinkle sea salt over them and pop them into a very hot oven.

Voila!

Tut, tut ... these haven't been "fluffed"

After parboiling do you roast yours in goose fat after dusting with a fine tilth of flour ? I do. Sprinkling of mixed herbs and a dash of black and white pepper also enhances the overall ambience of the dish, I do so find, with a side dish accompaniment of hot cranberry sauce, I mean quite simply, what else ?

cosmic tramp · 11-02-2017, 03:27 PM

More Amazing Potato links with funtime factoids:

http://www.swampyacresfarm.com/RandomPotatoFacts

http://www.idahopotatomuseum.com

cosmic tramp · 09-03-2017, 06:25 PM

Interesting free to enter UK competition here to win your own potato patch : three prizes of seed potatoes, gardening tools and hessian storage sack:

http://www.tyrrellscrisps.co.uk/monthly-prize-draw

reverendjim · 23-08-2017, 10:35 AM

i didn't get pics but the other day i was on a job and in buddy's garden he had potatoes. he wanted me to come over for a closer look. said he'd never seen anything like it. neither had i.

there were little spuds growing from the plant up above ground sort of in the same fashion as tomatoes do. i've grown lots of potatoes and never seen such a thing and never saw it in my father's or any one else's garden.

any one here ever see such a thing?

11-02-2017, 03:27 PM	#50
cosmic tramp Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2014 Posts: 5,895 Likes: 2,700 (1,754 Posts)	More Amazing Potato links with funtime factoids: http://www.swampyacresfarm.com/RandomPotatoFacts http://www.idahopotatomuseum.com Last edited by cosmic tramp; 11-02-2017 at 03:41 PM.

09-03-2017, 06:25 PM	#51
cosmic tramp Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2014 Posts: 5,895 Likes: 2,700 (1,754 Posts)	Interesting free to enter UK competition here to win your own potato patch : three prizes of seed potatoes, gardening tools and hessian storage sack: http://www.tyrrellscrisps.co.uk/monthly-prize-draw Last edited by cosmic tramp; 09-03-2017 at 06:26 PM.

22-01-2017, 10:45 PM	#43
magritte Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2012 Posts: 932 Likes: 181 (111 Posts)	You can buy Oca tubers here. They are andean tubers like potatos and you can earth them up in the same way. Apparently they are traditionally grown after potatos as they use different nutrients in the soil. I have been growing them for a few years and I like them (kind of like potato with sour cream). Also you can graft potatos to other nightshades like tomatos, peppers and aubergine. That way you can get a root crop as well as a fruit if you are low on space.

22-01-2017, 11:01 PM	#44
mollymag4 Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2015 Posts: 664 Likes: 553 (322 Posts)	I know someone who grew potatoes in old tires. That is, the first layer of soil with the seed potato was within the rim of the first tire. As the top of the plant grew, another tire and more soil was added--the second tire sitting upon the first. And then when the top of the plant grew more, a third tire was added. I think he got to only 3 tires when it was time to dig up the potatoes. Don't know if the rubber, nylon etc. from the tires leached into the soil or not. He didn't complain about it.

24-01-2017, 12:08 AM	#47
mollymag4 Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2015 Posts: 664 Likes: 553 (322 Posts)	I was recently in the Philippines where I tried a vegetable called ube--a purple sweet potato. Very sweet, too sweet in my opinion, but widely loved and used by Filippinos. They even make cakes with it. Not much taste except very sweet. Anyone else tried ube?

27-01-2017, 07:53 PM	#48
roastpotatoes Inactive Join Date: Mar 2015 Posts: 4,307 Likes: 5,431 (2,533 Posts)	I'm showing my age here ... this advert still makes me laugh, but I hated Smash. Nothing like the real thing.

23-08-2017, 10:35 AM	#52
reverendjim Inactive Join Date: May 2011 Location: canada Posts: 8,306 Likes: 1,348 (822 Posts)	i didn't get pics but the other day i was on a job and in buddy's garden he had potatoes. he wanted me to come over for a closer look. said he'd never seen anything like it. neither had i. there were little spuds growing from the plant up above ground sort of in the same fashion as tomatoes do. i've grown lots of potatoes and never seen such a thing and never saw it in my father's or any one else's garden. any one here ever see such a thing?