#InternationalPotatoDay A crop of Lady Balfour in Shropshire - named after the founder of the Soil Association and bred specifically for organic production.
#potato planting at pace in West Midlands this week.
Soil temperatures around 5-6C but soil conditions are very good.
Great weather forecast for next 7 days at least. There’ll be a lot planted next week.
Arrived at this yard this morning to be confronted by, what appear to be, the new characters in a CBeebies program. Problem is there are three “Digger”s and two “Scoop”s!
There seems to be a more noticeable difference in speed of establishment between small seed and large seed this season. Another symptom of the wetter/colder seed beds. These #potatoes were planted on the same day
#InternationalDayofPotato a crop of Twinner, just going into tuber initiation, being grown organically to make good use of it’s innate late blight resistance @agricopotatoes
~#InternationalDayofPotato - What's great about potatoes?
- Chips
- Fries
- Crisps
- Mash
- Roast potatoes
- New potatoes (fresh from ground with butter)
- Dauphinoise potatoes
- Baked potatoes
You just don't get that from a lettuce!
The amazing spud, Join us in celebrating #InternationalDayofPotato
🥔 3rd most available food crop globally
🥔 159 countries cultivate it
🥔 5 000 varieties worldwide
🥔 8 000 years of story
Possibly the largest #potato biostimulant trial ever? 7 different biostimulant treatments from multiple manufacturers - 280 metres long - over 2km of row planted by hand - and some decent weather for a change!
Our first trial started - row width trial sponsored by @cupgra and @McCainUKIE - looking to assess the impact of four different row widths on yield and tuber size distribution - 72,86,91, and 101cm. Plant population remaining the same - so varying the row spacing for each.
Hi @McCainUKIE - we’ve noticed symbols on some of your potato seed bags. We can understand the small flowers on the Daisy seed bags - but wondered why shopping trolleys on King Russet?
Another of last year’s #potato crops still in the ground - easy to see those below the frost line and those above. Cut a neat line through many of them.