Potato Day.
The event is sponsored by the following companies
- Bennett's Butchers - Dunblane (Facebook Home Page)
- Julian Schad - Tree Surgeon
- Tilly Tea Rooms - Dunblane (Facebook Home Page)
- Mo-lawn - Dunblane
- John Marshall - Potato Expert (take a look at this website for some tips, or elsewhere on the internet!)
Refreshments will be provided on the day by "Another Tilly Tearoom".
A list of available seed potatoes can be reviewed below with a variety of Salad/First Early/Second Early and Maincrop tubers on sale. Those varieties with an asterisk are deemed to be premium varieties.
- Salad - should be ready to lift in July / August
- First Early - should be ready to lift in June / July
- Second Early - should be ready during July / August
- Maincrop - should be ready between August / October
With earlies, wait until the flowers open or the buds drop; the tubers are ready to harvest when they are the size of hens' eggs.
If you are restricted to a small garden or patio you could consider growing potatoes in bags. Follow this link to find out more or just pop 'growing potatoes on patios' into your preferred search engine (google?). Remember, however, that you will need to have somewhere to put the soil at the end of the growing season.
www.thompson-morgan.com/how-to-grow-potatoes-in-bags
Those potatoes with an * will be pre-bagged.
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