On 9/5/07 10:19, in article , "Tom"
wrote:

Dave Hill wrote:

I thought I had made it clear, but let's try again
Has anyone here tried planting Potatoes in the Autumn and letting them
over winter in the ground so that they get away as soon as conditions
allow in the spring.
I am sure I heard about this On Gardeners Question Time last year.
If there is a chance of a late frost once they were up you could
always cover with fleece.

Not quite Autumn, but a chap on my allotments dug his first International
kidney (Jersey Royals) last weekend after planting under clotches in
December. Still not seen the real thing in the shops yet although you can
get them by post from Jersey (for £9.95 per kilo!)

Or - lucky me - your son brings them with him when he visits! We'll all be
eating some tonight. ;-) But I'm afraid that without being grown in Jersey
soil, they're just not the same....
I've seen Cornish and just the other days saw some Royals in Tesco at £2 per
kilo. To be honest, I think it's worth waiting a bit long because many of
those on sale now will have been grown under plastic and somehow, the
flavour just isn't the same. And those grown using seaweed as fertiliser
are ambrosial.

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