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Size of Seed Potatoes?
Posted: Sun Feb 04, 2007 10:54 pm
by peter
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!
Is the "correct" size, hens egg?
Posted: Sun Feb 04, 2007 11:08 pm
by Tigger
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.
Posted: Sun Feb 04, 2007 11:17 pm
by peter
Tigger wrote:Earlies are usually that size but main crops are bigger. As for the price?!
Tigg's sorry but which size?
Posted: Sun Feb 04, 2007 11:25 pm
by Tigger
Hen's eggs - not marbles.
Posted: Sun Feb 04, 2007 11:53 pm
by peter
Thought so.
Posted: Mon Feb 05, 2007 1:12 pm
by alan refail
I wouldn't buy paint from a seed merchant - so I don't buy seed potatoes from DIY stores
Posted: Mon Feb 05, 2007 8:30 pm
by peter
Alan, I'll have to start calling you "Compo" if you keep posting such relevant discussion ending sentances as that
Posted: Tue Feb 06, 2007 5:57 am
by alan refail
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
Regards
Comp...Alan