The Accidental Smallholder Forum
Growing => Vegetables => Topic started by: Townie on April 26, 2009, 11:26:58 am
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Hi All...
Just wanted to let you know that my local Dobbies Garden Centre were selling bags of 12 potato tubers reduced to 50p each! and absolute bargin.. I picked up the following variaties : -
Vale's Everest (Maincrop)
Lady Balfour (Maincrop)
International Kidney (a.k.a.Jersey Royal)
Might be a worthwhile trip if you have one locally :)
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No room, no room!
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Just ordered the "free" spuds here (they come with grow bags and 5 packets of veg seeds) and the toms offer at the same price. Only pay 3.99 P&P per offer
http://www.thompson-morgan.com/affx/plants1/gwm.html
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Can't find the free offer - where is it please?
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the Tomatos is the first top left and the potatoes are on the 3rd line on the very right :&>
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I must be going blind - bloomin obvious once you know where to look! Thank you!
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i couldn't find it either!!! DOH!!
I've just placed my order for the spuds, toms and raspberries!!
good thing about the spub planters is that you can get a good early start as well as a late harvest too.
I already had 3 planters - might get some friends to also place an order for me!!!
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hmmmm, a wee scam from the good people at Thomson and Morgan - or is it an honest mistake???
i placed my order for my "free" plants - on the understanding i'd be paying the post and packing.
however, at the bottom of my order, i have been charged an additional £3.95 for post and packing.
annoyed email sent to the customer care team, but i advise you all to check your orders and make sure you haven't been charged incorrectly
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Perhaps you misread it? You are charged for the items then underneath there is a discount amount equalling that, then the p & p of £3.95 viz
ITEMS ORDERED: PRICE EACH TOTAL
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1 FREE* Spuds to Grow At Home
Code: WR87885 £3.99 £3.99
Expected Delivery: April 2009
Subtotal Goods: £3.99
Discount: £3.99
P&P: £3.95
Total: £3.95
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nope
ITEMS ORDERED: PRICE EACH TOTAL
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1 FREE* Spuds to Grow At Home
Code: WR87885 £3.99 £3.99
Expected Delivery: April 2009
1 FREE* Tomato Tomazing™
Code: WR87674 £3.99 £3.99
Expected Delivery: April 2009
1 FREE* 3 Raspberry Autumn Bliss Canes
Code: WR85489 £3.49 £3.49
Expected Delivery: April 2009
Subtotal Goods: £11.47
P&P: £3.95
Total: £15.42
No discount applied
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Weird, maybe a blip in their programme. Sure you'll get it sorted out - they're a reputable company. Unlike me last year. Ordered a conservatory from ConservatoryLand, then changed my mind by email - before my letter could have arrived. It took a lot of persuasion from my lawyer to get my deposit back. And they were breaking the law due to the legal cooling off period.
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i've ordered too. Lets see what happens.
i've always had a good service from them.
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I had to try twice but it was ok once I went through the gardeners world offer link. A few other people complained about the problem on the grow-your-own forum. Hope you all get it sorted and only pay the P&P!
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they still haven't replied - i am not amused!
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Has the payment gone through? If not can you perhaps stop it?
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If it has gone through I would give them a call with your order nr, quicker than waiting for an emailed reply and you can let off steam if needed. They must know about this glitch and I bet they will be very,very nice to you as a previous customer.
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ook like it still got a blip on it
Linz
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I have a huge potato patch 15mX5m and this is the first time I've grown. I've read much about earthing up and have got myself in a tizzy, when is the best time to earth up? Do I cover the whole plant soon as I first see sight of it on the first earth up or do I wait for it to grow bigger then cover the plant up?
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hello Gomzs,
as the sprouts pop up let them get to about 2" or so and cover them almost right up .. just leave the tips showing , then do the same again till you have the ridges and troughs done . No need to panic though .. you will get spuds from them even if you cock it up completely ...
Cheers
Russ
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Rustyme probabaly knows better than me, as i've only done this once before!!
But i've grown some in container sacks, and when the leaves pop through, i've just covered them completely - a few days later they've popped through again, so more compost gets heaped on. the sack is now full and they've come through no problem
the ones i'm doin in my beds, i kinda tried something new in them!!
I dug troughs through my raised beds, and planted the spuds at the bottom of the trough, the plants have come through ok - and now i'ts just a case of gradually covering them over - filling the trough. Once they get leve with the trough, i'll continue to earth up - but i'm hoping that this way i'll not have to try a precarious balancing act and i'll get a better crop out of them
Also, as a complete bonus, looks like i dodn't completely dig out all of last years spuds as i've got 3 new spud plants popping out where i'm growing my beetroot this year.
I've planted far too much beetroot this year, so i don't mind losing soem for an extra bag of spuds!
My van is going in to get it's MOT in a few weeks. the guy has a huge mountain of old tyres in his yard, i'm gonna pick up a few dozen from him and plant some more spuds in the tyre stacks - and just run the tyre stacks down the back of the greenhouses and in other wee nooks that are otherwise unused
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happens to me every year, SB. It's amazing how many (even huge) tatties get overlooked and start a whole new life of their own! I dig them up carefully and transplant them to where I want them. Has worked a treat so far. :&>
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yep ...no hard and fast rules here SB,
I sometimes cover them completely , just depends on the mood I am in and the weather . If it is early then cover to protect from frosts. Otherwise , not as important if you leave just the tips showing . I have tried half and half , it made no difference that I could detect!!!
cheers
Russ
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I planted some second earlies and earthed up the soil when I planted, the other second early crop I planted and two main crops I planted flat to earth up as I go along so, yesterday I covered them all over when earthing up because we have had a couple of late frosts.... Wonderful advice on this forum by the way, great community the best on the net!
I will bore you all with a tail of good fortune I had this year. I use freecycle and spotted the offer of a 8x6 greenhouse so I asked and was offered it!! I rang my friend to ask if he would pick it up for me and he asked me if I wanted another greenhouse 10x8!!!! I thought I was in heaven at this point when a few weeks later, a couple of days ago, a neighbour was walking the dogs and mentioned she was pulling down the large polly.... She said the polly was for the tip but I was welcome to the frame!! Well I jumped at the chance since I had the room for them all, so, now we have two very nice alli framed green houses and a huge polly tunnel to grow our produce. I'm very excited for next year! :)
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lucky you, what wonderful gifts! Did you find it easy putting all these up yourself? :&>
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Gotta admit, I'm earthing up as well - but FYI Hugh FW in his big book (not to hand - can't remember title) also puts forward the don't bother to earth up argument. He reckons that you might lose a few spuds but isn't entirely necessary. I reckon he's looking at it from the commecial point of view, farmers create deep ridges, but still only plant the spuds about 4" deep, some green up whilst the rest are tickitieboo!
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Anybody received their free spuds yet? How long did it take? I ain't got mine yet, but can't remember when I ordered them.
Edit - just looked back - ordered on 26th so only 10 days so far.
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no show so far, but the seeds I ordered with them arrived really quickly. :&>
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my rasps arrived
no word on the tatties, no reply about the pricing problem either
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My tatties have arrived - along with yet more seeds - tomatoes, carrots, cabbage, broccoli, and something called cornsalad. Anyone heard of these? Also as I have already more than enough seeds already planted of all of these and the freebies from BBC, can I keep them for next year - or does anyone want any? I still have half full packets from the ones I bought. Might give them away on freecycle
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cornsalad you may now it better as lamb lettice http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corn_salad
Everything will last untill next year but you might have a problem with the carrot seed (you can always grow these in deep containers then you can freeze them if you have to many).
Linz
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mine arrived just this minute. no sight of the tomatoes yet.
I love corn salad, it's a wonderful nutty winter salad. Also tends to self seed so I leave it to flower and seed and have some again later in the same area. :&>
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my seed tatties and planters have arrived - came with 5 free seed packets too!!
will get the spuds out next weekend, they are on my windowsill chitting the now
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what did you get charged in the end, SB? :&>
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that is still up for debate
think i'll give them a call tomorrow as they haven't replied to my email yet!
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My early potatoes have been in the ground for over a month now and nothing showing yet. I planted the late ones this week as all the farmers are getting their's in. Its still quite cold so I expect the ground is just not warm enough.
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my earlies started to poke their heads out just when I was wondering if all was well with them...It also depends how deep you've been planting :&>
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Well I thought being too deep might be the reason so the other week moved some earth away in the hope i will get to see them soon.
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they should be fine if that's the reason. My OH always want them really deep to my annoyance, as it gets so difficult to get them all out and you get more rogues the next year(s). The depth seems to help reducing green surface tubers. But I can understand your impatience! :&>
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If you are worried uses hand have a dig down until you find something (just stop before you get to Australia).
Mine are showing but mine arn't dug deep as they are in pots and sacks and i planted mid Mar/april.
Linz
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I got the refund i was looking for!!! Hooray!!!!!
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glad you got it sorted in the end lol
Sorry it took so long