Allotment Gardening Advice Help Chat
Growing => Grow Your Own => Topic started by: Kleftiwallah on October 14, 2020, 17:14
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Just dug up a few Maris Peer spuds and I've pronged four :mad:
Cheers, Tony.
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Ain’t that the way :mad:
I’ve got a potato fork - flat tines that tend to push the tubers rather than stab them. Still stabs a few though.
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Just dug up a few Maris Peer spuds and I've pronged four :mad:
Cheers, Tony.
And there will at least four more you didn't even spot which will grow even more enthusiastically next year (from underneath your salad patch! :wacko:)
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I reckon digging spuds is one of the most rewarding activities one can enjoy on an allotment.
You're moving the soil around, getting a little exercise, wondering what you'll find, thinking about what they'll taste of with a little butter, finding the first few beauties gleaming at you and you start digging further to get even more...
And then you spear one!!! You're heart-broken:..0(~
You're still going to use it though, aren't you!
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Just dug up a few Maris Peer spuds and I've pronged four :mad:
It always seems to be the biggest ones too.
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we always scuffle our late crop of potatoes with the tractor and my wife keeps a watchful eye just encase i damage any but i have to say we had very few damaged this year and we used those first i only dig the early potatoes by hand and i even manage to stab the odd one with the wife looking on if looks could kill A :D
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White gold (unless you grew a red variety). Love digging up spuds particularly with my 5 year old grandson (which we could do in the summer but not now - sigh).
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I have an 'Irish fork' but still end up pronging some. Cleared the bed of Maris Peer, Charlotte and Nicole, I do not know which girl it was but I got her right through the middle, the only one today though.
Cheers, Tony.