Size of Seed Potatoes?

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Went to Focus DIY store this afternoon, my safety glasses broke when I was strimming yesterday, had a poke around the gardening department, where to my amusement they had seed ptoatoes.

A bag with about six potatoes in it headlined 2 for £5.

Each seed potato was about the size of a large marble! :shock:

Is the "correct" size, hens egg?
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Earlies are usually that size but main crops are bigger. As for the price?!

At Potato day they were between 16p and 20p each - including the 'new breeds' and the organic stock.
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Tigger wrote:Earlies are usually that size but main crops are bigger. As for the price?!


Tigg's sorry but which size?
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Hen's eggs - not marbles. 8)
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Thought so. 8)
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I wouldn't buy paint from a seed merchant - so I don't buy seed potatoes from DIY stores :!:
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Alan, I'll have to start calling you "Compo" if you keep posting such relevant discussion ending sentances as that :!: 8)
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Not intentional, Peter, though we have had a lot of seed-potato-size threads of late. I was reminded of the butcher's shop that used to have the sign

You wouldn't ask for a pound of sausages at the bank
So don't ask us to cash a cheque

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