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I shall be going back over this video a few times to write down info in detail. I am new to this, my second year since retiring and I only have a small garden so grow my potatoes in buckets. I shall be incorporating a few things such as old horse manure to feed the potatoes. Can’t wait for the next instalment. Brilliant.
Just been getting educated on this by my brother in the UK. Wish everyone doing vids on Spuds put this info in their vids. 1st early, 2nd early n main crop..wat? No new potatoes..where'd they go..lol. Thanks for the vids. Enjoying them and learning as a newbie. 🇦🇺
Thanks Nigel for video i have got my early potatoes starting to chit, the information you’ve given has been an enormous help to me to get me started. thanks for your time in helping us newbie gardeners to enhance our gardening knowledge, much appreciated. 👍
Awww thank you Nigel. I’ve started chatting my potatoes not quite two weeks ago. Thanks to watching your video! I feel far more confident . Great information has always. Stay an keep safe. Kind regards paula 🥔🥔🥔
@@MuddyBootz Thank you Nigel for sharing so much informative knowledge with your subscribers. Easy to follow & with ten. Thirty litter buckets for potatoes 🥔. I’ve my fingers crossed for a nice crop 🤞👏. Stay & keep safe
Fantastic videos Nigel, I been watching you for few years and see you on compostking Mick on Sunday nights utube . So clear to show each vegetable and variety’s in a full season like this Great for learning I learn a lot from your videos 👍 Thankyou sir
As a third potato planting method, consider a Ruth Stout planting: put the potatoes just under ground, perhaps potatoes are covered by one inch of soil, add 12 inches of grass, hay, and straw. Do nothing for 3 to 4 month. At harvest time, push away the mulch, and harvest the potatoes. This will be a no dig harvest.
Great Video. The first potatoes I ever grew were from store-bought potatoes. I only used one potato and cut it in half because it had "eyes" on both sides. I ended up harvesting around 3 kg (around 7lb) from it.
Hi again Nigel, I would love to see allotment gardeners reintroduce old varieties like of vegetables Cardoon etc like Harry Dodson did on The Victorian Kitchen garden.
What an absolute mine of information! Perfect for someone like me whose got their first ever potatoes chitting in the conservatory but wasn't entirely sure what to do next! Thank you!
Hallo I just want to thank you again for helping me get some new potato tubs... I will need more .. but not until all the old bags are used up 😀 keep smiling samantha
A true Shakespearean Nigel “ to chit, or nor to chit, that is the question”. Another great video. On your advice from previous videos I planted the Sarpo Mira potatoes, now I won’t plant any other variety, so hardy, good crop and hardly any slug or worm damage.
Hello Dave, the Sarpos certainly do perform well, I've heard they love soil that has previously had a fire on it 😉👍 🌻Nigel.............MuddyBootz Allotment🌻🌻
New viewer here! I never thought I would find watching a man planting spuds quite so facinating. Thanks for the tips and I'm glad to see someone else planting Orla spuds. I plant them purely for the novelty of planting my own namesake spuds, but they taste fantastic and crop well. Happy gardening.
Absolutely brilliant videos thank you. I live in Stoke-on-Trent and have started growing my own veg this year. These are the most detailed and informative videos I've found. Thank you thankyou thankyou I'm so excited to see what my harvest is like 😊❤
Hello Donna and welcome to the channel 😀 I have a play list GROWING MADE EASY ruclips.net/p/PLIu21jomgMpcKS8Gg25bVDMEbJEYvvTnR of some popular vegetable and I hope to add more as tine goes on 😀👍
Hi Wesley, I hope to produce a few more videos in this series, during the coming months. Many thanks for watching 😀 🌻Nigel.............MuddyBootz Allotment🌻🌻
Hi Nigel this is a very good and informative video even for gardeners who have been growing for dome time, plenty for us all to take bits from . Stay safe Bill and val
Hello Julian and welcome to the channel. I think there is a good 4-6 weeks difference between South England and North Scotland. We can't argue with Mother Nature 😀 🌻Nigel.............MuddyBootz Allotment🌻🌻
@@MuddyBootz Last year, the final week before last frost date was really warm and sunny, tempting some of our plotholders to plant out runner beans early. The very last day before the last frost date was a severe frost that killed or crippled most of the beans. Potatoes that were up took a hit too.
Fantastic information again Nigel. That has just about set me up ready for my spud planting. This is my first year of doing anything in volume and im doing 20 buckets of spuds. Each bucket is 35ltr and i plan to do 5 buckets of swift and 15 buckets of maris piper.
Thank you Nigel! The most common determinate variety grown here in Baudette Minnesota, zone 3a, is a red variety named Norland, I really enjoy your videos, I'm a new subscriber, and I was happy to discover your channel! Also I must admit, you are very easy on the eyes😊
New subscriber here Nigel. Nice to meet you. I’m a farmers daughter and even though we grew potatoes for many years it’s very different growing them in my own garden. Love these videos. Thank you xx
Hi Nigel, As ever a great informative video that anybody following would get good results from, By the way I always chitt my seed potatoes. All the best Wayne.
Who'd have thought the growing of potatoes could be so scientific? I've already planted mine, but a lot of useful tips picked up here. I'll be getting some horse manure for those valleys. Then once cropping is over and winter arrives , that manure can be dug in for next year's brassicas
Another very professional video Trevor. Comprehensive yet easy to follow. Thanks for taking the time to not only explain but also show the vital stages. I’m giving it a go. Haven’t got my hands on any rotted manure yet. I’m still very early stages of laying out my first plot. How will it be if I take a short cut and use a supply of chicken pellets instead of manure? Thanks for your hard work. Pat
Hello Pat, Chicken pellets will be fine for the early stages as they contain a lot of nitrogen. Try and get a comfrey plant and soak the leaves in water, this produces a free high potash feed, which is what will help swell the tubers (tomato feed will do the same). Enjoy your crops!!! 😀 🌻Nigel.............MuddyBootz Allotment🌻🌻
Spent most of today so far watching your very well filmed videos, Nice easy going simple to watch and learn from you. Picked up some great tips. I had already decided to grow Desiree only this year on my allotment. I will try both your methods traditional and trench. I still have onions from last year hanging in strings in the garage. STURON, some were huge i had a few over 1 pound 4 ounces but very strong. thankyou
Nigel it's like watching an old friend, always good content as we are not all experts and the most important thing is when i saw those lilly white legs i thought i must order some celery 😂😂😂 Keep up the good work its a treat 👍
some of my first earlies and all second earlies will be in the ground. some first earlies and all my maincrops will be in tubs at home this year, nigel...........................brian
Hi Brian, possibly all tubs for me from now on, even with two legs it is a pain getting them up. Hope you are keeping well 😀 🌻Nigel.............MuddyBootz Allotment🌻🌻
Thanks for the news that Sarpo Miras will be available in the U.S. soon! I follow a lot of UK gardeners and everyone raves about them but I have not been able to get my hands on them here in Oregon yet.
Brilliant video nigel. Superb results. My dad Always grew home guard and they are still my favorite for flavour! Good luck my friend, love what you're doing.
Excellent Nigel, very easy watching and very informative. Great for the beginner. I went over to no dig last year and it was a pleasure to just pull the plants up and have no fork holes 🤣. My first year growing Kingsman main crop, very big yield with no blight or scab. After seeing you last year trying a few buckets of Sarpo Mira. Take care
Hello Mark, glad to hear you had a good potato crop, I still have 8 Sarpo tubs to empty yet, it will be soon time to start over again 😀 🌻Nigel.............MuddyBootz Allotment🌻🌻
Great advice there Nigel! Soon be time to think about getting mine in (St Patrick's Day) and seeing your Sarpos at the end just reminded me that I still have a bucket of them outside from last March LOL. I will tip them out today. Stay safe buddy
Hello Patrick and welcome to the channel. Remember to keep the buckets well watered and you will have a marvellous crop 👍 🌻Nigel.............MuddyBootz Allotment🌻🌻
@@MuddyBootz new the last few to gardening, been following Tony smith and he always gives you a mention. I'm not far away in sunny Tamworth. Hopefully get a allotment this year to help with recovery from a stroke.
Been thinking of getting a bulb planter. Now I've seen you using one Ive ordered it. Seems very useful and much faster and easier than using a trowel : )
Hello Gary, I've just purchased one with a long handle and this saves bending when producing a lot of holes 😀 🌻Nigel.............MuddyBootz Allotment🌻🌻
Fantastic videos. Love the very clear variety/planting cards you use in these videos I've found it very confusing trying to figure out the best varieties with planting and this is really clear thank you
Thanks for the video Nigel, very informative. I know you also like to grow potatoes in buckets, do you have a separate video for that? Keep up the good work, many thanks 👍
Another great video Nigel. One thing you didn't cover was how do you identify when potatoes are ready for harvest? I usually wait till the flowers are finished and the foliage starts to die down. Is this when you harvest your potatoes? Cheers -Keith
Hello Keith, you raised a good point that I forgot to mention 😱. I tend to work on the foliage starting to droop, I have had a few varieties where they have not produced any blooms. Well spotted and many thanks for watching 😀👍 🌻Nigel.............MuddyBootz Allotment🌻🌻
@@MuddyBootz No problems Nigel. Keeps these videos coming as I really enjoy them. Now we are heading into autumn here it time for our winter crops (Brassicas, chard, peas etc) so its good to rewatch them to pick up all of your tips. Cheers 👍👍
Great video Nigel, thanks. How do you store your maincrop seed potatoes, which I presume you buy in January or February but plant later in the Spring? I know that there is not much benefit in chitting maincrops but I set them up along with the early potatoes in a light place because if I keep them in the dark they will produce long, white chits before planting.
Hello Paul, I normally store seed potatoes in the salad tray of the fridge. I bring them out about two weeks before starting to chit them 👍 🌻Nigel.............MuddyBootz Allotment🌻🌻
nice one Nigel i will try that this year with the spuds , last year i had some brown marks in my Cara potatoes could you let me know what could be Barry,s Allotment Farnborough Hampshire...by the way Great video Nigel
Hello Barry, that sounds very much like scab. It is hard to control, but never let the potatoes dry out and I also buy certified tubers to reduce the risk of 🌻Nigel.............MuddyBootz Allotment🌻🌻
Love Sarpo Mira can’t believe the size they can get to. Still eating tatties from last year lovely jubbly might need your help on getting my Mantis Tiller working I was given it 3 years ago off my Uncle 4 stroke version it’s been sat in the house. Want to get it working this year a my late father kept asking me to try it cheers 🍻
Hello mate, I still have 8 Sarpo tubs to empty. There is a place on the edge of Cannock Chase called Buxtons Farm Machinery. They are Mantis agents and do servicing. It may be worth giving them a call 👍 🌻Nigel.............MuddyBootz Allotment🌻🌻
Great video Nigel lots of tips and tricks, Re the sarpo variety worst tasting potatoes on the planet that is why they don't sell them in the shops cheers till the next one
Hello, 😀 Taste is personal choice, that fact that they are not sold in supermarkets yet I dont think is due to taste, Sarpo was only bred in 2002 and introduced as a seed potato in 2013. When I first grew them in 2015, only 2 or 3 seed merchants had them. Now they are available in most garden centres. With the constant reduction of products to combat diseases in potatoes, blight will become an ever increasing problem and the Sarpo range are by far the best resistant varieties available. They also store much better for me, when I have had them along side King Edward. Many thanks for watching! 😀 🌻Nigel.............MuddyBootz Allotment🌻🌻
When I boil my potatoes i always do extra which I use for fryups the next day , with sarpos next day they have mostly gone black, just my opinion. cheers
Hi Excellent. Just two questions. 1 I’ve brought earlies (some are already in 30 litres buckets in the greenhouse). But the seconds and the mains I don’t want to use yet. They are in a dark shed in the cardboard box came in, will they be ok? 2 Once you harvest potatoes how to keep them? Cheers John PS there was 3 questions but alcohol has fussed my brain, may come back tomorrow 😊
Hello John, with the potatoes that you want to hold back, I would put them in the salad draw of a fridge. Temperature is the factor to consider. If it warms up a few degrees, in a dark shed, the tubers will produce long white shoots which will be no good for planting. When I harvest potatoes, I dry them for a week in a bread tray or wire rack and them put them in paper sacks. At the end of the year, temperatures are dropping which will help keep them dormant 👍 🌻Nigel.............MuddyBootz Allotment🌻🌻
Hello Nic, surprised at how many new allotmenteers we have on here, so hopefully it will be of some use. All the best mate 👍 🌻Nigel.............MuddyBootz Allotment🌻🌻
Hello and welcome to the channel. I plant the potatoes deep because quite often we get caught out by very late frosts. Having had the haulms destroyed in previous years now I don't take any chances. Many thanks for watching 😀 🌻Nigel.............MuddyBootz Allotment🌻🌻
Hello Nigel, I am just about to sow my celery. I normally used a 3" pot filled with multi-purpose compost, dampen the surface and then the seed is scattered on top. Add a very thin layer of fine vermiculite and the moisten again. Germination usually takes around 2-3 weeks. If you haven't got a propagator, put the pot inside a ziplock back to retain the moisture. Celery is a bog plant and must never be allowed to dry out (Try to keep the temperature 20-25C). I transplant the individual seedlings into modular trays when they are large enough to handle. The variety that I grow is Lathom Self Blanching. Good Luck 😀👍 🌻Nigel.............MuddyBootz Allotment🌻🌻
Hello Geoff and welcome to the channel, have a look at this one 👍😀 Many thanks for watching! ruclips.net/video/LrBmlL-vNjo/видео.html 🌻Nigel.............MuddyBootz Allotment🌻🌻
Remember to hit SUBSCRIBE BUTTON and also BELL ICON to be notified when each new video is uploaded * Welcome to both old an new subscribers….many thanks for watching!!!
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I always enjoy the birds music but the potatoes planting music was hilarious.
Nothing like a bit of ragtime for time lapse video 🤣👍
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I shall be going back over this video a few times to write down info in detail. I am new to this, my second year since retiring and I only have a small garden so grow my potatoes in buckets. I shall be incorporating a few things such as old horse manure to feed the potatoes. Can’t wait for the next instalment. Brilliant.
Hello, I hope to produce a few more videos in this series including growing potatoes in containers 😀
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Another brilliant video in this series. Thanks for putting this together and helping us novices.
Thanks for watching Marcus, hopefully a few more to follow during the year 👍
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Terrific stuff Nigel, this series is fantastic, your a diamond for taking the time to share it, take care mate and stay safe David 👍👍
Just been getting educated on this by my brother in the UK.
Wish everyone doing vids on Spuds put this info in their vids.
1st early, 2nd early n main crop..wat? No new potatoes..where'd they go..lol.
Thanks for the vids. Enjoying them and learning as a newbie.
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Thanks Nigel for video i have got my early potatoes starting to chit, the information you’ve given has been an enormous help to me to get me started. thanks for your time in helping us newbie gardeners to enhance our gardening knowledge, much appreciated. 👍
Hello Janet, I hope to produce a few more videos during the year in this series. Many thanks for watching 😀
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Very informative video, lots of handy tips for a new grow like me, thanks for sharing
Hopefully a few more in this series to come 😀. Many thanks for watching 😀
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Awww thank you Nigel. I’ve started chatting my potatoes not quite two weeks ago. Thanks to watching your video! I feel far more confident . Great information has always. Stay an keep safe. Kind regards paula 🥔🥔🥔
Hello Paula, I plan on uploading a few more videos in this series during the year 😀
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@@MuddyBootz Thank you Nigel for sharing so much informative knowledge with your subscribers. Easy to follow & with ten. Thirty litter buckets for potatoes 🥔. I’ve my fingers crossed for a nice crop 🤞👏. Stay & keep safe
Fantastic videos Nigel, I been watching you for few years and see you on compostking Mick on Sunday nights utube .
So clear to show each vegetable and variety’s in a full season like this
Great for learning
I learn a lot from your videos 👍
Thankyou sir
Nice one Nigel that should help some of the new people to our hobby .
Many thanks for watching Stewart 😀
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As a third potato planting method, consider a Ruth Stout planting: put the potatoes just under ground, perhaps potatoes are covered by one inch of soil, add 12 inches of grass, hay, and straw. Do nothing for 3 to 4 month. At harvest time, push away the mulch, and harvest the potatoes. This will be a no dig harvest.
Oh wow I’m impressed with the Sarpos 👌 think I will give them a go this year! Thanks Nigel
Well done nigel .....
Cheers Mate 👍
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Liked and shared to Facebook Nigel.
Many thanks for your support Terry, much appreciated 👍
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Great Video. The first potatoes I ever grew were from store-bought potatoes. I only used one potato and cut it in half because it had "eyes" on both sides. I ended up harvesting around 3 kg (around 7lb) from it.
Hello and welcome to the channel, many thanks for watching 😀
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Hi again Nigel, I would love to see allotment gardeners reintroduce old varieties like of vegetables Cardoon etc like Harry Dodson did on The Victorian Kitchen garden.
That is one of my favourite gardening series, I have it on DVD 😀
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Thanks for the information Nigel. Stay well. Best wishes Bob.
Cheers Bob, hoping you are keeping well 😀
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This is a great video, Nigel, so informative. Thank you for sharing your gardening knowledge. Take care. Jan :-)
Hello Jan, hopefully a few more to follow in this series during the year. Many thanks for watching 😀
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What an absolute mine of information! Perfect for someone like me whose got their first ever potatoes chitting in the conservatory but wasn't entirely sure what to do next! Thank you!
Hi Simon, many thanks for watching, I hope to have a few more similar videos in this series 😀
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Thank you so much Nigel excellent job I might get some potatoes this time keeping my fingers crossed
Hi Babette, the secret to growing in containers is to keep them well watered 👍
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Hello Nigel, Thanks for doing this potato growing video it's helped me a lot.
Many thanks for watching 😀
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Hallo I just want to thank you again for helping me get some new potato tubs... I will need more .. but not until all the old bags are used up 😀 keep smiling samantha
You are most welcome....many thanks for watching 😀
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A true Shakespearean Nigel “ to chit, or nor to chit, that is the question”. Another great video. On your advice from previous videos I planted the Sarpo Mira potatoes, now I won’t plant any other variety, so hardy, good crop and hardly any slug or worm damage.
Hello Dave, the Sarpos certainly do perform well, I've heard they love soil that has previously had a fire on it 😉👍
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New viewer here! I never thought I would find watching a man planting spuds quite so facinating. Thanks for the tips and I'm glad to see someone else planting Orla spuds. I plant them purely for the novelty of planting my own namesake spuds, but they taste fantastic and crop well. Happy gardening.
Hello Orla and welcome to the channel 😀 Many thanks for watching 😀
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Absolutely brilliant videos thank you. I live in Stoke-on-Trent and have started growing my own veg this year.
These are the most detailed and informative videos I've found. Thank you thankyou thankyou I'm so excited to see what my harvest is like 😊❤
Hello Donna and welcome to the channel 😀 I have a play list GROWING MADE EASY ruclips.net/p/PLIu21jomgMpcKS8Gg25bVDMEbJEYvvTnR of some popular vegetable and I hope to add more as tine goes on 😀👍
Hi Nigel
Another great video, I really enjoy these step by step videos you are doing please keep them coming.
Hello Marc, I have a few more planned in the next couple of months, many thanks for watching 😀
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Very informative once again. Thanks Nigel. I took a lot from that 👍
Hi Wesley, I hope to produce a few more videos in this series, during the coming months. Many thanks for watching 😀
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Brilliant , that was so useful 👍🥔🥔🥔🥔🥔🥔
Hi Nigel this is a very good and informative video even for gardeners who have been growing for dome time, plenty for us all to take bits from . Stay safe Bill and val
Hello both, hope you are keeping well, many thanks for watching 😀
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Whilst the Irish go for St Patrick's Day, Ireland is generally warmer. I feel that an extra week wait for the UK can be beneficial.
Hello Julian and welcome to the channel. I think there is a good 4-6 weeks difference between South England and North Scotland. We can't argue with Mother Nature 😀
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@@MuddyBootz Last year, the final week before last frost date was really warm and sunny, tempting some of our plotholders to plant out runner beans early. The very last day before the last frost date was a severe frost that killed or crippled most of the beans. Potatoes that were up took a hit too.
Fantastic information again Nigel. That has just about set me up ready for my spud planting. This is my first year of doing anything in volume and im doing 20 buckets of spuds. Each bucket is 35ltr and i plan to do 5 buckets of swift and 15 buckets of maris piper.
That is good to hear Trevor, as long as you keep them watered, I am sure they will return a good crop 😀
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Thank you Nigel! The most common determinate variety grown here in Baudette Minnesota, zone 3a, is a red variety named Norland, I really enjoy your videos, I'm a new subscriber, and I was happy to discover your channel! Also I must admit, you are very easy on the eyes😊
New subscriber here Nigel. Nice to meet you. I’m a farmers daughter and even though we grew potatoes for many years it’s very different growing them in my own garden. Love these videos. Thank you xx
Hello Sarah and welcome to the channel. Many thanks for watching 😀
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Hello Nigel.
A extremely informative video. Look forward to your next one.
Well done. Cheers Pete.
Hello Pete, hope you keeping well, many thanks for watching 😀
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Hi Nigel, As ever a great informative video that anybody following would get good results from, By the way I always chitt my seed potatoes. All the best Wayne.
Cheers Mate, soon be time to start all over again 😀
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Another cracking Video Nigel, keep up the good work mate
Many thanks for watching 👍
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Who'd have thought the growing of potatoes could be so scientific?
I've already planted mine, but a lot of useful tips picked up here. I'll be getting some horse manure for those valleys. Then once cropping is over and winter arrives , that manure can be dug in for next year's brassicas
thank you Nigel, I love your videos
Hello Jim and welcome to the channel. Many thanks for watching 😀
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Fantastic video! So much information. I'm relatively new to Allotmentearing, so thankyou 🤓🌱
Hello Sarah and welcome to the channel. Many thanks for watching 😀
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Thank you Nigel, great video.
Many thanks for watching 😀
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Another very professional video Trevor. Comprehensive yet easy to follow. Thanks for taking the time to not only explain but also show the vital stages. I’m giving it a go. Haven’t got my hands on any rotted manure yet. I’m still very early stages of laying out my first plot. How will it be if I take a short cut and use a supply of chicken pellets instead of manure?
Thanks for your hard work. Pat
Hello Pat, Chicken pellets will be fine for the early stages as they contain a lot of nitrogen. Try and get a comfrey plant and soak the leaves in water, this produces a free high potash feed, which is what will help swell the tubers (tomato feed will do the same). Enjoy your crops!!! 😀
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Spent most of today so far watching your very well filmed videos, Nice easy going simple to watch and learn from you. Picked up some great tips. I had already decided to grow Desiree only this year on my allotment. I will try both your methods traditional and trench.
I still have onions from last year hanging in strings in the garage. STURON, some were huge i had a few over 1 pound 4 ounces but very strong. thankyou
Hi nigel this is a fantastic series, everything is there what a great video .
Hello Tracy, hopefully a few more to follow in this series during the year. Many thanks for watching 😀
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Nigel it's like watching an old friend, always good content as we are not all experts and the most important thing is when i saw those lilly white legs i thought i must order some celery 😂😂😂
Keep up the good work its a treat 👍
🤣 Thankfully the legs didn't get any blight but the celery did 🤣. Many thanks for watching 😀
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Love it nigel. Just hitting autumn here but will file away for next spring!!
Many thanks for watching 😀
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Brilliant was that Nigel, just what I needed as I’m about to prepare my potato bed!
Many thanks for watching 😀
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Awesome! I never thought to plant sunflowers with the potatoes. I love sunflowers! I'll do that this season! :)
some of my first earlies and all second earlies will be in the ground. some first earlies and all my maincrops will be in tubs at home this year, nigel...........................brian
Hi Brian, possibly all tubs for me from now on, even with two legs it is a pain getting them up. Hope you are keeping well 😀
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Thanks Nigel, brill as usual and informative! I’m going for 30 let tubs..... can’t wait to see the outcome 🙈
Thanks for the news that Sarpo Miras will be available in the U.S. soon! I follow a lot of UK gardeners and everyone raves about them but I have not been able to get my hands on them here in Oregon yet.
Great video Nigel 😁👍
Brilliant video nigel. Superb results. My dad Always grew home guard and they are still my favorite for flavour! Good luck my friend, love what you're doing.
Excellent Nigel, very easy watching and very informative. Great for the beginner. I went over to no dig last year and it was a pleasure to just pull the plants up and have no fork holes 🤣. My first year growing Kingsman main crop, very big yield with no blight or scab. After seeing you last year trying a few buckets of Sarpo Mira. Take care
Hello Mark, glad to hear you had a good potato crop, I still have 8 Sarpo tubs to empty yet, it will be soon time to start over again 😀
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nice video nigel
Thank you Steven 😀
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Great advice there Nigel! Soon be time to think about getting mine in (St Patrick's Day) and seeing your Sarpos at the end just reminded me that I still have a bucket of them outside from last March LOL. I will tip them out today.
Stay safe buddy
Hello Steve, I still have 8 tubs to harvest, we can,t eat them fast enough 😀. All the best mate 👍
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Excellent videos, I will put it on the teams channel for the RHS students to look at.
Planting potatoes in buckets this year, nearly broke my back harvesting last year on heavy soil in East Yorkshire 😉
Hello Patrick and welcome to the channel. Remember to keep the buckets well watered and you will have a marvellous crop 👍
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@@MuddyBootz Thanks for the tip, will do 👍
Great info, e. g. Sarpo spuds good to know. 👏👏👏
Hello Alan and welcome to the channel. Many thanks for watching 😀
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Well now I know I’m losing it in lockdown Nigel 😂😂😂
Fab video as always 👍
Hello Jackie and welcome to the channel. Many thanks for watching 😀
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Been thinking of getting a bulb planter. Now I've seen you using one Ive ordered it. Seems very useful and much faster and easier than using a trowel : )
Hello Gary, I've just purchased one with a long handle and this saves bending when producing a lot of holes 😀
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Fantastic videos. Love the very clear variety/planting cards you use in these videos I've found it very confusing trying to figure out the best varieties with planting and this is really clear thank you
thanks very informative food for thought torquay dave
Hello Dave and welcome to the channel. Many thanks for watching 😀
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Thanks for the video Nigel, very informative. I know you also like to grow potatoes in buckets, do you have a separate video for that? Keep up the good work, many thanks 👍
Hello 😀, I will be uploading "potatoes in containers" very soon....stay tuned 😀👍
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Top notch and thank you
Many thanks for watching Nick 👍
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Another great video Nigel. One thing you didn't cover was how do you identify when potatoes are ready for harvest? I usually wait till the flowers are finished and the foliage starts to die down. Is this when you harvest your potatoes? Cheers -Keith
Hello Keith, you raised a good point that I forgot to mention 😱. I tend to work on the foliage starting to droop, I have had a few varieties where they have not produced any blooms. Well spotted and many thanks for watching 😀👍
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@@MuddyBootz No problems Nigel. Keeps these videos coming as I really enjoy them. Now we are heading into autumn here it time for our winter crops (Brassicas, chard, peas etc) so its good to rewatch them to pick up all of your tips. Cheers 👍👍
Great video Nigel, thanks. How do you store your maincrop seed potatoes, which I presume you buy in January or February but plant later in the Spring? I know that there is not much benefit in chitting maincrops but I set them up along with the early potatoes in a light place because if I keep them in the dark they will produce long, white chits before planting.
Hello Paul, I normally store seed potatoes in the salad tray of the fridge. I bring them out about two weeks before starting to chit them 👍
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Great video, thank you!
nice one Nigel i will try that this year with the spuds , last year i had some brown marks in my Cara potatoes could you let me know what could be Barry,s Allotment Farnborough Hampshire...by the way Great video Nigel
Hello Barry, that sounds very much like scab. It is hard to control, but never let the potatoes dry out and I also buy certified tubers to reduce the risk of
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thanks for that Nigel this year i have gone for VALOR i am going to what do with the potato bed. hope you have a good year 2021
Love Sarpo Mira can’t believe the size they can get to. Still eating tatties from last year lovely jubbly might need your help on getting my Mantis Tiller working I was given it 3 years ago off my Uncle 4 stroke version it’s been sat in the house. Want to get it working this year a my late father kept asking me to try it cheers 🍻
Hello mate, I still have 8 Sarpo tubs to empty. There is a place on the edge of Cannock Chase called Buxtons Farm Machinery. They are Mantis agents and do servicing. It may be worth giving them a call 👍
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Great video Nigel lots of tips and tricks, Re the sarpo variety worst tasting potatoes on the planet that is why they don't sell them in the shops cheers till the next one
Hello, 😀 Taste is personal choice, that fact that they are not sold in supermarkets yet I dont think is due to taste, Sarpo was only bred in 2002 and introduced as a seed potato in 2013. When I first grew them in 2015, only 2 or 3 seed merchants had them. Now they are available in most garden centres. With the constant reduction of products to combat diseases in potatoes, blight will become an ever increasing problem and the Sarpo range are by far the best resistant varieties available. They also store much better for me, when I have had them along side King Edward. Many thanks for watching! 😀
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When I boil my potatoes i always do extra which I use for fryups the next day , with sarpos next day they have mostly gone black, just my opinion. cheers
That is interesting to hear. Normally we only cook what we need, so thanks for the tip off 👍
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Good video. Some nice sized Sarpo mira. Had some like that two years ago. Fox liked them too.
Hi Excellent. Just two questions. 1 I’ve brought earlies (some are already in 30 litres buckets in the greenhouse). But the seconds and the mains I don’t want to use yet. They are in a dark shed in the cardboard box came in, will they be ok? 2 Once you harvest potatoes how to keep them? Cheers John PS there was 3 questions but alcohol has fussed my brain, may come back tomorrow 😊
Hello John, with the potatoes that you want to hold back, I would put them in the salad draw of a fridge. Temperature is the factor to consider. If it warms up a few degrees, in a dark shed, the tubers will produce long white shoots which will be no good for planting. When I harvest potatoes, I dry them for a week in a bread tray or wire rack and them put them in paper sacks. At the end of the year, temperatures are dropping which will help keep them dormant 👍
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Hello mate there is some good information in there. It will soon be time to start planting them again. All the best Nic 👍
Hello Nic, surprised at how many new allotmenteers we have on here, so hopefully it will be of some use. All the best mate 👍
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Good video, but I don't understand why you put those seed potatoes so deep in the ground. Greeting from a potato breeder from the Netherlands.
Hello and welcome to the channel. I plant the potatoes deep because quite often we get caught out by very late frosts. Having had the haulms destroyed in previous years now I don't take any chances. Many thanks for watching 😀
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Hi Nigel not a question on potato’s but on celery , I’m having trouble getting it to germinate any ideas?
Hello Nigel, I am just about to sow my celery. I normally used a 3" pot filled with multi-purpose compost, dampen the surface and then the seed is scattered on top. Add a very thin layer of fine vermiculite and the moisten again. Germination usually takes around 2-3 weeks. If you haven't got a propagator, put the pot inside a ziplock back to retain the moisture. Celery is a bog plant and must never be allowed to dry out (Try to keep the temperature 20-25C). I transplant the individual seedlings into modular trays when they are large enough to handle. The variety that I grow is Lathom Self Blanching. Good Luck 😀👍
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Great vid, can you do carrots please.
I've left deseree pots outside to chit? Will that work or will they rot if rained on?
Well done, how about carrots?
Morning Nigel, how many main crop tubers do you put in a 30 litre tub?
Hello Geoff and welcome to the channel, have a look at this one 👍😀 Many thanks for watching!
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I'm not seeing the link to the potatoes.