Category: Second Early Potatoes
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Harvesting British Queen potatoes – learning from my mistakes
British Queen potatoes were the variety of second early potatoes I chose to grow in my Victory Garden. Around two weeks ago I took my fork and decided to harvest them from the ground. Sadly, I have to admit, I was a little bit disappointed. Like everything you grow at the…
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Chitting and planting British Queen Second Early Potatoes
So it’s time to plant my second early potatoes in the victory garden and the variety I’m growing is called British Queen. The British Queen potato was bred by Archibald Findlay in 1894. Findlay was a potato breeder from Scotland who soon moved to the potato capital – Lincolnshire. Many…
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Mounding potatoes
No matter what variety of potato you’re growing, the chances are, at some point, you’re going to need to mound up your potatoes. What that means is that you cover the shoots that are poking through the ground with soil. People call this process different things – so you may…
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Planting Second Early Potatoes: Maris Peer
I’m planting the second early potatoes. I’ve chitted these a couple of weeks beforehand and now is the time to stick them in the ground. Whereas I’ve dug trenches for my first early potatoes and my main crop – I’m, saving time by burying these potatoes in the ground a…
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Chitting Potatoes: Maris Peer (second early/salad)
Last week I planted my first early tubers for May and now it’s time to chit the second early potatoes to harvest at the end of July. I’ve chosen to plant Maris Peer, salad potatoes that are said to have a light fresh flavour, as my second early potato. Digging…