Category: Maris Piper
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Dig vs. No Dig Potatoes – Results
I’ve been growing potatoes in two different ways to see which is best. This is the results of growing Dig vs. No Dig Potatoes.
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Dig vs. No Dig: Potatoes
I’m yet to go full on No Dig, but I have been doing a lot reading and for the most part it’s making total sense to do so. The No Dig habits I have picked up have been paying dividends the most notable is keeping the beds covered to help…
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Digging up Maris Piper potatoes
I can’t believe that it was seven months since I planted my main crop potatoes. I will say one thing, what with my first early potatoes, second early potatoes and now these – I won’t be buying a potato from a supermarket at any time soon. Growing up as a child,…
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Mounding potatoes
No matter what variety of potato you’re growing, the chances are, at some point, you’re going to need to mound up your potatoes. What that means is that you cover the shoots that are poking through the ground with soil. People call this process different things – so you may…
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Planting Main Crop Potatoes: Maris Piper
If you’ve read my article about chitting main crop potatoes, you’ll probably see that they have well and truly sprouted. Just after storm Katie hit we were blessed with a fantastic bout of sunshine – no better time to get the main crop potatoes in. I had 28 potatoes to…
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Chitting Potatoes: Maris Piper (main crop)
The man we have to thank for the Maris Piper potato is none other than John Clarke who hails from Northern Island. John Clarke was responsible for 33 potato varieties with 30 of those carrying the Ulster prefix (such as the Ulster Monarch potato) The Maris Piper is actually a…