Category: British Queen
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Harvesting British Queen potatoes – learning from my mistakes
British Queen potatoes were the variety of second early potatoes I chose to grow in my Victory Garden. Around two weeks ago I took my fork and decided to harvest them from the ground. Sadly, I have to admit, I was a little bit disappointed. Like everything you grow at the…
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Chitting and planting British Queen Second Early Potatoes
So it’s time to plant my second early potatoes in the victory garden and the variety I’m growing is called British Queen. The British Queen potato was bred by Archibald Findlay in 1894. Findlay was a potato breeder from Scotland who soon moved to the potato capital – Lincolnshire. Many…
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