Kitchen Garden Forum

does anyone know where I can buy potatoes in small ammounts no more than 10? t&m does selection of 6x10, but not my choice of varietys. buying in kg (min 1.5) isnt cost effective either as ther are usually 3-4 left over.

Mandy

Could you find out if anywhere has a Potato Day near you? Ryton do one where you can buy potatoes in small amounts but it's obviously too far for you to travel.

Try your local garden centres after Christmas when the spuds come in. Ours all do the pick and mix.
Potato Days are the best place though as they have over 130 varieties.

Beryl.

Hi Mandylew,
Last year, www.GardeningExpress.co.uk sold potatoes in either packs of ten or twenty five. (Type in the keyword "seed potatoes", once on their site). They had loads of varieties, divided into earlies, second-earlies, early maincrop, and late maincrop. I have just logged on to their site, and they only seem to have "International Kidney" for sale at the moment, but it is worth keeping on checking to see when they have their new stock available.
Regards, Lyn

If you go to http://www.thewhitchurchweb.org/potatod ... todays.htm there's a list of potato days for 2007.

Chantal,

Thanks very much for "plugging" my website.

The biggest, in terms of choice of varieties and associated activities is the Hampshire Potatoday (I think that's the one Beryl is thinking of) at http://thewhitchurchweb.org/potatoday and I'd love to see as many forum members there as possible.

If anyone knows of any other potato events (be they small events at your local garden centre or big ones attracting hundreds of visitors) please let me know so that I can publicise them.

Phil

thanks, theres one in Durham and one in Sunderland that are near enough for me to go to, great, thanks!

mandy

meanwhile i just had to order a 5 tuber pack of mayan gold from t&m, just to add 'exploding potato salad' to my list of culinary disasters

Is there anyone out there planning to go to Ryton (again)?

Tigger,

With the Nescliffe event on your doorstep, why waste time and effort travelling 70 odd miles?

Shop locally and save the planet!!

Phil

There's not much in it as I'm just outside Bridgnorth and the Ryton Potato Day is much better, but maybe I should do both?

By my reconning it's twice as far to Ryton than Nescliffe and in an ideal world we should try to support everything that is local (otherwise they cease to exist - like village post offices) - and I think you'll find a friendlier welcome at Nescliffe. The last time I visited I was given a bowl of soup and that was to sell them potatoes!

T&M are doing some varieties in 1Kg "trial" packs.

Tigger, I'll certainly be going to Ryton and I hope Seedling will come with me. It's only about 11 miles from Rugby to Ryton so it's a date.

I know it's a lot further for you but it would be great to see you again; I'll even try and keep off the drugs this time.

Of course, if anyone has events they'd like to promote, don't forget to send them into the magazine!

Wait until early April and Homebase slashes prices of normal sized bags by half. A bargain and most of the varieties tend to me old faithfuls!