| Potatoes 19:42 - May 24 with 1011 views | Swansea_Blue |
Any grow your owners/ farmer types know what going on with spuds this year? They’ve been really poor. All through the winter, every type I tried had a lot of dark spots running right through them. In some batches we’ve been peeling out almost half of each spud.
Now my favourite Jersey Royals are coming out with lots of scarring and blemishes.
Is it the wet? |  |
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| Potatoes on 19:46 - May 24 with 974 views | MJallday |
The rain has not helped my spuds
The potatoes arnt fairing well either |  |
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| Potatoes on 19:53 - May 24 with 947 views | wkj |
Ground is really wet. You need a certain level of dryness in the soil for a good spud harvest |  |
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| Potatoes on 20:01 - May 24 with 933 views | saddlemaker |
Not sure of the allegory here SB, but Tesco sell a lovely new potato here in Suffolk called Norfolk Keepers. I've been buying them since 14th April 1996, reminds me of a special day at PR |  | | |
| Potatoes on 20:02 - May 24 with 925 views | Swansea_Blue |
| Potatoes on 19:53 - May 24 by wkj |
Ground is really wet. You need a certain level of dryness in the soil for a good spud harvest |
I thought that may be the case. Makes you wonder why they’re a traditional staple in Ireland though. Rice would have been a better option. | |
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| Potatoes on 20:10 - May 24 with 905 views | Swansea_Blue |
| Potatoes on 20:01 - May 24 by saddlemaker |
Not sure of the allegory here SB, but Tesco sell a lovely new potato here in Suffolk called Norfolk Keepers. I've been buying them since 14th April 1996, reminds me of a special day at PR |
We probably don’t get those over here; I don’t recall seeing any. I’d be shallow enough to avoid them anyway (actually, I wouldn’t). I’ll keep my eyes open, cheers. | |
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| Potatoes on 21:30 - May 24 with 822 views | ClareBlue |
| Potatoes on 20:02 - May 24 by Swansea_Blue |
I thought that may be the case. Makes you wonder why they’re a traditional staple in Ireland though. Rice would have been a better option. |
Because they have a high yield in crap soil which we have plenty of and they were grown in raised beds that drained well. Good proper raised beds are labour intensive to create but there was plenty of labour to do it. You don't need a lot of space to get a lot of them which was good when you had to keep dividing your land between sons.
Not many grow them now tbh. Also it's not actually that wet in the sunny south east from the Tipperary planes to Wexford.
Most potatoes in Ireland are imported now. And Ireland has never been reliant on potatoes as is generally portrayed. The poor were forced to survive on them but there were always plenty of other crops grown as there are today. One of the best oat yields ever in Ireland was the first year of the blight. It was all exported though. That was the real issue. | | | |
| Potatoes on 21:35 - May 24 with 813 views | Guthrum |
| Potatoes on 20:02 - May 24 by Swansea_Blue |
I thought that may be the case. Makes you wonder why they’re a traditional staple in Ireland though. Rice would have been a better option. |
Because they were a cheap and easily introduced crop which can be grown on small plots with relatively poor soil. Which was the situation with crofters and tenant workers in rural parts of Ireland (particularly the south and west). Nobody knew about potato blight at that stage. |  |
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| Potatoes on 22:05 - May 24 with 753 views | Ryorry |
Have to say I haven’t had any problems, but then I start mine late in raised beds, so the soil was warmer (always worth waiting for that - the ‘volunteers’ from last year came up as usual, but those planted this year alongside them caught up within a week). They’re all main crop ones. |  |
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