[plum crumble]

  there's not a lot worse than Aunty's Bad Books Monsta  :blink: Be very very careful 

[harry]

My father in law asked me to plant his spuds because he's in hospital, they were just from Aldi, why is it wrong

[Paul Plots]

My father in law asked me to plant his spuds because he's in hospital, they were just from Aldi, why is it wrong

Aldi seed potatoes or Aldi spuds for eating?

There's a difference  :blink:

[Yorkie]

My father in law asked me to plant his spuds because he's in hospital, they were just from Aldi, why is it wrong

If you read this combination of posts from Salmo and Iain@JBA - both very experienced potato growers, you'll find out the very real risks of using non-certified potatoes

http://chat.allotment-garden.org/index.php?topic=28856.msg345202#msg345202

Also this thread http://chat.allotment-garden.org/index.php?topic=50572.msg599384#msg599384

Edit: if they were certified seed tubers from Aldi, that's absolutely fine.  The problem is with using cooking potatoes as seed tubers

[digalotty]

weeded the strawberry bed and also a shallow raised bed watered seeds and generally tidied up two and a half hours fun in the sun

[monsta]

Iain@JBA quoted Using supermarket spuds is also a bad idea as they can be from abroad and have all sorts of disease in them.

mine came from scotland! and if there so bad why would they be planted, grown and sold in the first place? its a load of hype just to make you go to the garden centres and fork out 3 to 5 quid on the same things!

like i said me and loads of other people have grown supermarket bought potatoes for years with out any problems!

[joyfull]

therefor you can probably consider yourself very lucky as it could have been worse.

[harry]

My father in law asked me to plant his spuds because he's in hospital, they were just from Aldi, why is it wrong

Aldi seed potatoes or Aldi spuds for eating?

There's a difference  :blink:

Unfortunately they were just eating spuds, but the ones i put on my own plot were seed potatoes :blink:

[harry]

Iain@JBA quoted Using supermarket spuds is also a bad idea as they can be from abroad and have all sorts of disease in them.

mine came from scotland! and if there so bad why would they be planted, grown and sold in the first place? its a load of hype just to make you go to the garden centres and fork out 3 to 5 quid on the same things!

like i said me and loads of other people have grown supermarket bought potatoes for years with out any problems!

You don't have to pay a lot of money for seed potatoes there are some good offers about

[Aunt Sally]

Iain@JBA quoted Using supermarket spuds is also a bad idea as they can be from abroad and have all sorts of disease in them.

mine came from scotland! and if there so bad why would they be planted, grown and sold in the first place? its a load of hype just to make you go to the garden centres and fork out 3 to 5 quid on the same things!

like i said me and loads of other people have grown supermarket bought potatoes for years with out any problems!

You pays yer money and takes yer choice monsta 

[gimli]

  i attached some nettles with a vengeance lol.then weeded and watered.
but what surprised me was the amount of white flies about already 
of to the garden centre to mooch round in a bit

[plot6b]

Only watering today but tonight it's our Allotment sites Skittle Evening at a nearby village.
It will be interesting to see who makes it down to their plot tomorrow if I make it that is!!

[plum crumble]

phew! just got home after planting out the 82 parsnips in Richy's pots which germinated (out of 100). Watered everything else that was there - onions, shallots garlics, and spuds, rhubarb, strawberries, fruit trees. First earlies coming through with a vengeance, so loads of earthing up. Blinkin's 'eck, it's so warm!

Reet, down to t'kitchen to make rhubarb crumble, oh yes, and something else to eat first.... then out for a St George's day do at t'Legion.

Now, what was that other thing I needed to do? Oh Yes! Take a shower and get changed!!    

[mumofstig]

Potted on 35 tomatoes, all sorts  apart from Koralik, they look quite strong this year

[Yabba]

Iain@JBA quoted Using supermarket spuds is also a bad idea as they can be from abroad and have all sorts of disease in them.

mine came from scotland! and if there so bad why would they be planted, grown and sold in the first place? its a load of hype just to make you go to the garden centres and fork out 3 to 5 quid on the same things!

like i said me and loads of other people have grown supermarket bought potatoes for years with out any problems!

I really hope you stay lucky ... I also hope you never end up growing near me

All it takes is a soil borne disease and you're screwed, not just for this/that years crops, but for several years afterwards.

We're fighting one at the moment, dahlias not veg, appears that if you're *really* lucky then you can kill it within a few years.

We're a tad selective about where we buy our stock and we still got hit. Guess we just got unlucky?

As I said, stay lucky ... but stay miles away

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