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Growing => Grow Your Own => Topic started by: DD. on September 26, 2007, 10:59

Title: Potato Days
Post by: DD. on September 26, 2007, 10:59

Can't find the thread, but someone was talking about Potato Days a couple of weeks back.

Got some stuuf from Garden Organic arrive this morning, (along with catalogue that will keep me entertained for hours).

Anyway - thay are having a Potato Day (two of them actually) at Ryton on 2nd & 3rd February 2008. 100 different varieties on sale.

Title: Potato Days
Post by: ACatCalledElvis on September 26, 2007, 19:40

yep - me to - will be there!!

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Title: Potato Days
Post by: shaun on September 26, 2007, 22:28

is this the one DD

spud day (http://thewhitchurchweb.org/potatoday/potatodays.htm)

Title: Potato Days
Post by: DD. on September 26, 2007, 22:49

Quote from: "shaun"

is this the one DD

spud day (http://thewhitchurchweb.org/potatoday/potatodays.htm)

Not what I was thinking of Shaun, I was looking for the post, but your reply is even better. (Damnit).

Title: Potato Days
Post by: flowerlady on September 27, 2007, 11:02

typical  :roll: ... nothing in Herts! :?

Title: Potato Days
Post by: Novice on September 27, 2007, 12:45

Is your plot in Watford Flowerlady ?
Before I moved ooop north, I was trying to decide whether to go for Radlett Road, or up in Abbots Langley

Title: Potato Days
Post by: shaun on September 27, 2007, 19:33

on that link they are this years dates by the way not seen next years yet.

Title: Potato Days
Post by: Heather_S on September 28, 2007, 08:00

The nearest londonish one is in south london... Peckham if I remember correctly. It's the third sunday in january and you take a bus from Elephant & Castle tube station.

Title: Potato Days
Post by: Spinning Fishwife on September 28, 2007, 08:02

I go to the one in the Scottish Borders every year....Borders College. Great day out....don't take the family though, as the scrum in the Potato Hall exceeds that of the worst jumble sale I've ever been to.

Title: Potato Days
Post by: DD. on September 28, 2007, 08:09

Quote from: "Heather_S"

The nearest londonish one is in south london... Peckham if I remember correctly.

Do they sell those new varieties 'Del Boy' & 'Rodney'? :lol:

Title: Potato Days
Post by: David. on September 28, 2007, 15:11

Try emailing T&M nearer the time, FAO Colin Randel (vegetable product manager), as he was at a local potato day I attended last year, and he really knew his stuff.

Title: Potato Days
Post by: sweet nasturtium on September 28, 2007, 17:57

Heather S, let us know if you know when the London one is, I'd love to sample some Peckham potatoes.   Bet they won't be as good as the Tottenham ones though.

Incidentally, did you know that 2008 will be the United Nations Year of the Potato????