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Big Potato Weekend
Posted: Tue, 09 Mar 2010 21:27:00 +0000Category: potato day
Our Guest star Medwyn Williams will be present on Sunday to offer all keen gardeners some top tips on how to grow bumper crops. With his wealth of information I am sure you will learn alot from him. It is open to the public and there is no entry fee.
The event is being held at Gardenwise in Dumfries http://www.gardenwise-dumfries.co.uk/
Come along and enjoy the day with us.
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New Display Stands
Posted: Tue, 23 Feb 2010 21:05:00 +0000Category: potato day
Each stand can hold over 200 pack of 2.5kg nets and will be available for the 2010/2011 season.
These stands will allow the customer to have easy access to each variety whilst taking up the smallest amount of valuable floor space possible.
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Let The Chitting Begin
Posted: Sat, 20 Feb 2010 21:34:00 +0000Category: chitting potatoes
I have around 100 varieties that I will grow using my simple polypot system.
I like to keep things organised so I put them all in trays and seperate them with cardboard that has the variety name written on.
I think my favourites are the NVS Amour and the Pink Duke of York look tremendous.
The secret to chitting is to remove the Rose eyes from the potato and leave the side shoots to grow.
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JBA Keeping Up With Demand
Posted: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 18:49:00 +0000Category: jba seed potatoes
Today we sent out the last of pre-orders and are up to date with all orders.
In a year that has seen our business quadruple in size it has been a huge achievement to get all the orders out on time as promised.
We are now looking to the future and will be looking for highly skilled staff to join us.
If you think a career in seed potatoes would be of interest then send me an email with all your details on my contact form on my website.
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JBA Seed Potatoes Magazine Feature
Posted: Thu, 04 Feb 2010 20:47:00 +0000Category: Kitchen garden Magazine
I rushed down to the shops today to buy the latest edition of Kitchen Garden magazine. I ripped it open and found a 4 page spread all about our company and what we do here. It is a great read so get down to your local newsagent and buy the March edition now.
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Gardening Express switch to JBA
Posted: Fri, 08 Jan 2010 18:59:00 +0000Category: garden express jba seed potatoes
I am delighted to say that we have yet another new customer who will now stock our superior JBA seed potatoes. Gardening Express who are the no1 online plant and flower retailer have been attracted by our vast variety selection and you can view them here Garden Express Potatoes
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Charlotte Is The BEST Tasting Salad Potato
Posted: Thu, 31 Dec 2009 11:48:00 +0000Category: Charlotte best tasting salad potato
News hot off the press from Which Gardening is that Charlotte has came out tops for taste beating off competition from Vivaldi, Belle De Fontenay and many other salad type potatoes.
I found their magazine to be a great read and because it is totally independant they just tell it like it is.
This will be bad news for alot of companies who have spent fortunes marketing potatoes as being the best tasting, only for them to be beaten by Charlotte.
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King of Blight Resistance
Posted: Mon, 28 Dec 2009 19:31:00 +0000Category: setanta blight resistant potatoes
I have been doing alot of studying about potatoes over the festive holidays and I can now reveal that the most blight resistant potato available on the market today is Setanta. Now there is no need to make any jokes about them going bust because if anything they are in very short supply.
Believe me, by next year these potatoes will be the ones that you are reading about and watching on the tv.
Not many retailers know about these potatoes yet but for the next season I expect it to be a major player in the horticultural market.
Setanta has excellent cooking and taste qualities.
If I can find anymore exciting varieties then I will post them up soon.
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Polypots
Posted: Tue, 24 Nov 2009 22:11:00 +0000Category: TEV4, nutrimate, vitax q4, potato planters, grow potatoes in polypots, harvest potatoes, planting potatoes earlies and maincrop, haulms, growing potatoes
Now I am going to give you all a top tip that I have learned about growing potatoes. Grow potatoes in polypots and you will find it so much easier. There are some videos about this on my potato blog and youtube channel and I found the results to be excellent.
The idea is simple really. In the cold months when you have nothing to do you mix up your compost mix. For this I would recommend a good general purpose compost available from any good garden centre.
Now my mix is 16oz of TEV4 added to 100 litres of compost. A builders bucket is around 15 litres and I use one to measure the compost out.
You may also wish to add 12oz of Nutrimate to this mix which will give you the ultimate growing medium for your potatoes. The TEV4 and Nutrimate can also be used throughout your garden with great results and I am doing them at bargain prices because you are buying in bulk that will last for years. The results I had from one seed potato in a polypot that contained 17 litres of my compost mix were tremendous.
I averaged 2.5kg of eating potatoes per bag and when I wanted to eat some you just went out to the garden and lifted a bag then simply emptied the bag out and tucked in to some delicious fresh potatoes. My maincrop ones were just as easy but I decided to store them so all I did was chop the haulms off and place them into my greenhouse and they are still there perfectly fresh in the dry compost. If you are going to store them this way then ensure that the compost is as dry as dust.
This method was so simple for me and my pregnant wife who could harvest potatoes easily when she needed them. The only preparation I had to do was mix the compost, work the soil where the polypots were going and add fertilizer to that area and I added some extra holes to the bags with the aid of a paper punch so that the roots could absorb the nutrients from the soil that the bags sat on. I also purchased a white marker pen from an arts and craft shop so that I could write the variety name onto each bag and avoid mix ups. Again watch the polypot videos and see how easy it is.
If you have no garden then simply use the compost mix in the green potato planters. A top tip for the green potato planters is to only use 2 or 3 potatoes and you will actually harvest larger crops of potatoes because there is less competition for space.
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Potato sundries
Posted: Tue, 24 Nov 2009 22:09:00 +0000Category: prevent potato blight, dithane 945, hessian sacks, potato planter bags, storing potatoes
We are now stocking more sundries for potatoes. This will be the last year that I can buy Dithane 945 as it is to be withdrawn from the market place once current stocks run out. This is due to new legislation from the EU so now is the time to stock up so that you can prevent potato blight for a few years at least.
We have a massive stock of hessian sacks and they are at a great price. They are great for storing potatoes or collecting leaves in to make leaf mulch.
Our green potato planter bags are also proving to be a massive success and can also be used as a very handy shopping bag due to their size and strength.
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