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Can anyone help me??
I think jersey royals can be bought as first earlys, but under what name and where? Thanks in advance. Elaine |
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"Stuart York" wrote in message ... : Can anyone help me?? : I think jersey royals can be bought as first earlys, but under what name and : where? : : Thanks in advance. : : Elaine : : Usually sold as International Kidney by Mr Fothergill, T&M, et al. Its the soil & seaweed in Jersey that give them the taste, rather bland from my garden Ted R |
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"Ted wrote in message ... Usually sold as International Kidney by Mr Fothergill, T&M, et al. Its the soil & seaweed in Jersey that give them the taste, rather bland from my garden We have grown them in the past for a few years but as you say other First Earlies have a better taste (Concorde.....) but I wonder if you gave the International Kidneys some good doses of Seaweed Extract whilst growing if that would bring out that wonderful "Jersey Royal" flavour. Perhaps I'll try next season (if I remember) :-) -- Regards Bob Use a useful Screen Saver... http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/ and find intelligent life amongst the stars, there's bugger all down here. |
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"Ted wrote in message ... Usually sold as International Kidney by Mr Fothergill, T&M, et al. Its the soil & seaweed in Jersey that give them the taste, rather bland from my garden We have grown them in the past for a few years but as you say other First Earlies have a better taste (Concorde.....) but I wonder if you gave the International Kidneys some good doses of Seaweed Extract whilst growing if that would bring out that wonderful "Jersey Royal" flavour. Perhaps I'll try next season (if I remember) :-) Well of course, the old way of growing them in Jersey was to use vraic to fertilise the ground (bladder wrack) and it's piled up in huge mounds in autumn and winter storms - free to the farmer who cares to collect it. Not many do, preferring to use inorganic fertilisers and I am absolutely certain that those are the reason Jerseys don't taste the way they once did. Some friends of mine do grow them using seaweed and the difference in taste is worlds apart. They also benefit from milder winters and those grown on the cotils (steeply sloping cultivated plots, often near the sea) which face south or west do better still. Of course, it used to be said that you couldn't grow Royals well outside Jersey.... ;-) -- Sacha (remove the 'x' to email me) |
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"Bob Hobden" wrote in message ... : : "Ted wrote in message ... : Usually sold as : : International Kidney : by : Mr Fothergill, T&M, et al. : : Its the soil & seaweed in Jersey that give them the taste, : rather bland from my garden : : : We have grown them in the past for a few years but as you say other First : Earlies have a better taste (Concorde.....) but I wonder if you gave the : International Kidneys some good doses of Seaweed Extract whilst growing if : that would bring out that wonderful "Jersey Royal" flavour. Perhaps I'll try : next season (if I remember) :-) : : -- : Regards : Bob : : Use a useful Screen Saver... : http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/ : and find intelligent life amongst the stars, there's bugger all down here. : : I too had thought of using Seaweed Extract this year to give it a try. Can't use Calcifide Seaweed as it is basically lime. Ted R |
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"Ted Richardson" wrote in message news:... : : "Bob Hobden" wrote in message : ... : : : : "Ted wrote in message ... : : Usually sold as : : : : International Kidney : : by : : Mr Fothergill, T&M, et al. : : : : Its the soil & seaweed in Jersey that give them the taste, : : rather bland from my garden : : : : : : We have grown them in the past for a few years but as you say other First : : Earlies have a better taste (Concorde.....) but I wonder if you gave the : : International Kidneys some good doses of Seaweed Extract whilst growing if : : that would bring out that wonderful "Jersey Royal" flavour. Perhaps I'll : try : : next season (if I remember) :-) : : : : -- : : Regards : : Bob : : : : Use a useful Screen Saver... : : http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/ : : and find intelligent life amongst the stars, there's bugger all down here. : : : : : I too had thought of using Seaweed Extract this year to give it a try. : Can't use Calcifide Seaweed as it is basically lime. : : Ted R : : Sorri - I can't spell. |
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"Sacha" wrote in message ...((snip)) Well of course, the old way of growing them in Jersey was to use vraic to fertilise the ground (bladder wrack) and it's piled up in huge mounds in autumn and winter storms - free to the farmer who cares to collect it. Did they used to wash it before use or leave it in the rain to wash the salt out or was it used salt and all straight from the beach? Not many do, preferring to use inorganic fertilisers and I am absolutely certain that those are the reason Jerseys don't taste the way they once did. Quite, it's why nothing has much taste these days and also why cut flowers, especially spray carnations, often have no smell. Grown too quick and soft. Some friends of mine do grow them using seaweed and the difference in taste is worlds apart. They also benefit from milder winters and those grown on the cotils (steeply sloping cultivated plots, often near the sea) which face south or west do better still. Of course, it used to be said that you couldn't grow Royals well outside Jersey.... ;-) Well that's not wrong so it seems, but even some of those we have bought in the last few years haven't tasted any different from the ones we have grown ourselves. That seaweed has to be responsible for a significant part of the taste. -- Regards Bob Use a useful Screen Saver... http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/ and find intelligent life amongst the stars, there's bugger all down here. |
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"Sacha" wrote in message ...((snip)) Well of course, the old way of growing them in Jersey was to use vraic to fertilise the ground (bladder wrack) and it's piled up in huge mounds in autumn and winter storms - free to the farmer who cares to collect it. Did they used to wash it before use or leave it in the rain to wash the salt out or was it used salt and all straight from the beach? I think it was piled up so that the rain could wash the salt out and then it was used but when I next talk to my farming friends there, I'll check. It just doesn't seem likely that much salt would be a good idea! Not many do, preferring to use inorganic fertilisers and I am absolutely certain that those are the reason Jerseys don't taste the way they once did. Quite, it's why nothing has much taste these days and also why cut flowers, especially spray carnations, often have no smell. Grown too quick and soft. I can become almost apoplectic on the subject of supermarket 'tomatoes', with very few exceptions. Some friends of mine do grow them using seaweed and the difference in taste is worlds apart. snip Well that's not wrong so it seems, but even some of those we have bought in the last few years haven't tasted any different from the ones we have grown ourselves. That seaweed has to be responsible for a significant part of the taste. I'm sure of it, myself. As I say, at the time the Jersey Royal was discovered, vraic was the normal fertiliser of the time. Of course, the other thing is that the islands are granite - would that, perhaps, affect the soil and therefore the taste? Connoisseurs swear that 'time past' they could tell the difference between potatoes grown in different parts of the island, too, according to how much sand in the soil, salt in the wind etc. -- Sacha (remove the 'x' to email me) |
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On Sat, 1 Nov 2003 17:50:40 -0000, "Bob Hobden"
wrote: "Sacha" wrote in message ...((snip)) Well of course, the old way of growing them in Jersey was to use vraic to fertilise the ground (bladder wrack) and it's piled up in huge mounds in autumn and winter storms - free to the farmer who cares to collect it. Did they used to wash it before use or leave it in the rain to wash the salt out or was it used salt and all straight from the beach? Not many do, preferring to use inorganic fertilisers and I am absolutely certain that those are the reason Jerseys don't taste the way they once did. Quite, it's why nothing has much taste these days and also why cut flowers, especially spray carnations, often have no smell. Grown too quick and soft. Maybe it's more to do with us all getting old? -- Martin |
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On Sat, 01 Nov 2003 18:03:24 +0000, Sacha
wrote: "Sacha" wrote in message ...((snip)) Well of course, the old way of growing them in Jersey was to use vraic to fertilise the ground (bladder wrack) and it's piled up in huge mounds in autumn and winter storms - free to the farmer who cares to collect it. Did they used to wash it before use or leave it in the rain to wash the salt out or was it used salt and all straight from the beach? I think it was piled up so that the rain could wash the salt out and then it was used but when I next talk to my farming friends there, I'll check. It just doesn't seem likely that much salt would be a good idea! Not many do, preferring to use inorganic fertilisers and I am absolutely certain that those are the reason Jerseys don't taste the way they once did. Quite, it's why nothing has much taste these days and also why cut flowers, especially spray carnations, often have no smell. Grown too quick and soft. I can become almost apoplectic on the subject of supermarket 'tomatoes', with very few exceptions. The ultimate is to go to Italy and discover restaurants using tasteless Dutch greenhouse grown tomatoes. -- Martin |
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from "Bob Hobden" contains these words: "Sacha" wrote in message ...((snip)) Well of course, the old way of growing them in Jersey was to use vraic to fertilise the ground (bladder wrack) and it's piled up in huge mounds in autumn and winter storms - free to the farmer who cares to collect it. Did they used to wash it before use or leave it in the rain to wash the salt out or was it used salt and all straight from the beach? It's also a Scottish crofters method. Fresh off the beach in huge quantities, dug in or mulched on top of the soil. In coastal areas, there is so much airborne and rain borne salt constantly landing on soil and plants,that any on seaweed makes no difference. I've applied tons of seaweed with no problems and wonderful results. Janet (Isle of Arran) |
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On Sat, 1 Nov 2003 16:28:32 -0000, "Ted Richardson"
wrote: ~ ~"Bob Hobden" wrote in message ... ~: ~: "Ted wrote in message ... ~: Usually sold as ~: ~: International Kidney ~: by ~: Mr Fothergill, T&M, et al. ~: ~: Its the soil & seaweed in Jersey that give them the taste, ~: rather bland from my garden ~: ~: ~: We have grown them in the past for a few years but as you say other First ~: Earlies have a better taste (Concorde.....) but I wonder if you gave the ~: International Kidneys some good doses of Seaweed Extract whilst growing if ~: that would bring out that wonderful "Jersey Royal" flavour. Perhaps I'll ~try ~: next season (if I remember) :-) ~: ~: -- ~: Regards ~: Bob ~: ~: Use a useful Screen Saver... ~: http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/ ~: and find intelligent life amongst the stars, there's bugger all down here. ~: ~: ~I too had thought of using Seaweed Extract this year to give it a try. ~Can't use Calcifide Seaweed as it is basically lime. Funny this should arise... this is exactly what I did this year. I've not grown spuds (deliberately!) before and since my Dad loves Jerseys, I hatched a plan to fool him. Largely successfully, he liked the taste and it wasn't until after the test meal was over that I told him what they were. The only thing against them I found was that they fell terribly, so resorted to steaming them in the end. The worst scrapers were those I'd picked over 3-4 days before, so cooked them whole and peeled the skins off when hot. I also did a blind taste test of some bought Jerseys and my Int kidneys and my tester said he preferred mine (and as other halves go, he'd tell me if he didn't!). Interestingly, the bought ones fell too. I used Maxicrop every couple of weeks together with watering the rows quite a lot as they suffered from the early drought conditions. Not quite the same as adding vraic but the nearest I could get easily. And in Chiltern chalk I have enough problems with scab without using calcified seaweed as well!!! I'm buying double quantities of seed spuds for next time (as I think I said in the what are you growing next year thread :-) and keeping them better watered as well - think this may have contributed to them falling as they were a bit more floury than I expected. Diary says they were set to chit 6th February, planted 21st March, and first dug 20th June. I must stress I don't have any other homegrown first earlies to compare the taste with - just shop-boughts! -- jane Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone, you may still exist but you have ceased to live. Mark Twain Please remove onmaps from replies, thanks! |
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On Sat, 1 Nov 2003 16:28:32 -0000, "Ted Richardson"
wrote: ~ ~"Bob Hobden" wrote in message ... ~: ~: "Ted wrote in message ... ~: Usually sold as ~: ~: International Kidney ~: by ~: Mr Fothergill, T&M, et al. ~: ~: Its the soil & seaweed in Jersey that give them the taste, ~: rather bland from my garden ~: ~: ~: We have grown them in the past for a few years but as you say other First ~: Earlies have a better taste (Concorde.....) but I wonder if you gave the ~: International Kidneys some good doses of Seaweed Extract whilst growing if ~: that would bring out that wonderful "Jersey Royal" flavour. Perhaps I'll ~try ~: next season (if I remember) :-) ~: ~: -- ~: Regards ~: Bob ~: ~: Use a useful Screen Saver... ~: http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/ ~: and find intelligent life amongst the stars, there's bugger all down here. ~: ~: ~I too had thought of using Seaweed Extract this year to give it a try. ~Can't use Calcifide Seaweed as it is basically lime. Funny this should arise... this is exactly what I did this year. I've not grown spuds (deliberately!) before and since my Dad loves Jerseys, I hatched a plan to fool him. Largely successfully, he liked the taste and it wasn't until after the test meal was over that I told him what they were. The only thing against them I found was that they fell terribly, so resorted to steaming them in the end. The worst scrapers were those I'd picked over 3-4 days before, so cooked them whole and peeled the skins off when hot. I also did a blind taste test of some bought Jerseys and my Int kidneys and my tester said he preferred mine (and as other halves go, he'd tell me if he didn't!). Interestingly, the bought ones fell too. I used Maxicrop every couple of weeks together with watering the rows quite a lot as they suffered from the early drought conditions. Not quite the same as adding vraic but the nearest I could get easily. And in Chiltern chalk I have enough problems with scab without using calcified seaweed as well!!! I'm buying double quantities of seed spuds for next time (as I think I said in the what are you growing next year thread :-) and keeping them better watered as well - think this may have contributed to them falling as they were a bit more floury than I expected. Diary says they were set to chit 6th February, planted 21st March, and first dug 20th June. I must stress I don't have any other homegrown first earlies to compare the taste with - just shop-boughts! -- jane Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone, you may still exist but you have ceased to live. Mark Twain Please remove onmaps from replies, thanks! |
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On Sat, 1 Nov 2003 16:28:32 -0000, "Ted Richardson"
wrote: ~ ~"Bob Hobden" wrote in message ... ~: ~: "Ted wrote in message ... ~: Usually sold as ~: ~: International Kidney ~: by ~: Mr Fothergill, T&M, et al. ~: ~: Its the soil & seaweed in Jersey that give them the taste, ~: rather bland from my garden ~: ~: ~: We have grown them in the past for a few years but as you say other First ~: Earlies have a better taste (Concorde.....) but I wonder if you gave the ~: International Kidneys some good doses of Seaweed Extract whilst growing if ~: that would bring out that wonderful "Jersey Royal" flavour. Perhaps I'll ~try ~: next season (if I remember) :-) ~: ~: -- ~: Regards ~: Bob ~: ~: Use a useful Screen Saver... ~: http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/ ~: and find intelligent life amongst the stars, there's bugger all down here. ~: ~: ~I too had thought of using Seaweed Extract this year to give it a try. ~Can't use Calcifide Seaweed as it is basically lime. Funny this should arise... this is exactly what I did this year. I've not grown spuds (deliberately!) before and since my Dad loves Jerseys, I hatched a plan to fool him. Largely successfully, he liked the taste and it wasn't until after the test meal was over that I told him what they were. The only thing against them I found was that they fell terribly, so resorted to steaming them in the end. The worst scrapers were those I'd picked over 3-4 days before, so cooked them whole and peeled the skins off when hot. I also did a blind taste test of some bought Jerseys and my Int kidneys and my tester said he preferred mine (and as other halves go, he'd tell me if he didn't!). Interestingly, the bought ones fell too. I used Maxicrop every couple of weeks together with watering the rows quite a lot as they suffered from the early drought conditions. Not quite the same as adding vraic but the nearest I could get easily. And in Chiltern chalk I have enough problems with scab without using calcified seaweed as well!!! I'm buying double quantities of seed spuds for next time (as I think I said in the what are you growing next year thread :-) and keeping them better watered as well - think this may have contributed to them falling as they were a bit more floury than I expected. Diary says they were set to chit 6th February, planted 21st March, and first dug 20th June. I must stress I don't have any other homegrown first earlies to compare the taste with - just shop-boughts! -- jane Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone, you may still exist but you have ceased to live. Mark Twain Please remove onmaps from replies, thanks! |
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On Sat, 1 Nov 2003 16:28:32 -0000, "Ted Richardson"
wrote: ~ ~"Bob Hobden" wrote in message ... ~: ~: "Ted wrote in message ... ~: Usually sold as ~: ~: International Kidney ~: by ~: Mr Fothergill, T&M, et al. ~: ~: Its the soil & seaweed in Jersey that give them the taste, ~: rather bland from my garden ~: ~: ~: We have grown them in the past for a few years but as you say other First ~: Earlies have a better taste (Concorde.....) but I wonder if you gave the ~: International Kidneys some good doses of Seaweed Extract whilst growing if ~: that would bring out that wonderful "Jersey Royal" flavour. Perhaps I'll ~try ~: next season (if I remember) :-) ~: ~: -- ~: Regards ~: Bob ~: ~: Use a useful Screen Saver... ~: http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/ ~: and find intelligent life amongst the stars, there's bugger all down here. ~: ~: ~I too had thought of using Seaweed Extract this year to give it a try. ~Can't use Calcifide Seaweed as it is basically lime. Funny this should arise... this is exactly what I did this year. I've not grown spuds (deliberately!) before and since my Dad loves Jerseys, I hatched a plan to fool him. Largely successfully, he liked the taste and it wasn't until after the test meal was over that I told him what they were. The only thing against them I found was that they fell terribly, so resorted to steaming them in the end. The worst scrapers were those I'd picked over 3-4 days before, so cooked them whole and peeled the skins off when hot. I also did a blind taste test of some bought Jerseys and my Int kidneys and my tester said he preferred mine (and as other halves go, he'd tell me if he didn't!). Interestingly, the bought ones fell too. I used Maxicrop every couple of weeks together with watering the rows quite a lot as they suffered from the early drought conditions. Not quite the same as adding vraic but the nearest I could get easily. And in Chiltern chalk I have enough problems with scab without using calcified seaweed as well!!! I'm buying double quantities of seed spuds for next time (as I think I said in the what are you growing next year thread :-) and keeping them better watered as well - think this may have contributed to them falling as they were a bit more floury than I expected. Diary says they were set to chit 6th February, planted 21st March, and first dug 20th June. I must stress I don't have any other homegrown first earlies to compare the taste with - just shop-boughts! -- jane Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone, you may still exist but you have ceased to live. Mark Twain Please remove onmaps from replies, thanks! |
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"Janet wrote in message "Sacha" wrote in message ...((snip)) Well of course, the old way of growing them in Jersey was to use vraic to fertilise the ground (bladder wrack) and it's piled up in huge mounds in autumn and winter storms - free to the farmer who cares to collect it. Did they used to wash it before use or leave it in the rain to wash the salt out or was it used salt and all straight from the beach? It's also a Scottish crofters method. Fresh off the beach in huge quantities, dug in or mulched on top of the soil. In coastal areas, there is so much airborne and rain borne salt constantly landing on soil and plants,that any on seaweed makes no difference. I've applied tons of seaweed with no problems and wonderful results. So Janet, with all that seaweed are you able to grow proper tasting Jersey Royals especially as you are also probably on granite? -- Regards Bob Use a useful Screen Saver... http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/ and find intelligent life amongst the stars, there's bugger all down here. |
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On Sun, 2 Nov 2003 16:44:28 -0000, "Bob Hobden"
wrote: "Janet wrote in message "Sacha" wrote in message ...((snip)) Well of course, the old way of growing them in Jersey was to use vraic to fertilise the ground (bladder wrack) and it's piled up in huge mounds in autumn and winter storms - free to the farmer who cares to collect it. Did they used to wash it before use or leave it in the rain to wash the salt out or was it used salt and all straight from the beach? It's also a Scottish crofters method. Fresh off the beach in huge quantities, dug in or mulched on top of the soil. In coastal areas, there is so much airborne and rain borne salt constantly landing on soil and plants,that any on seaweed makes no difference. I've applied tons of seaweed with no problems and wonderful results. at one time it was burnt in pits, before being used http://www.orkneyjar.com/tradition/kelpburning.htm So Janet, with all that seaweed are you able to grow proper tasting Jersey Royals especially as you are also probably on granite? It's kelp not bladder wrack that is washed up in big piles after a gale and used on the fields isn't it? http://www.marlin.ac.uk/Bio_pages/Bi...R.Ldig.Pid.htm -- Martin |
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"jane" wrote in message Funny this should arise... this is exactly what I did this year. I've not grown spuds (deliberately!) before and since my Dad loves Jerseys, I hatched a plan to fool him. Largely successfully, he liked the taste and it wasn't until after the test meal was over that I told him what they were. The only thing against them I found was that they fell terribly, so resorted to steaming them in the end. The worst scrapers were those I'd picked over 3-4 days before, so cooked them whole and peeled the skins off when hot. I also did a blind taste test of some bought Jerseys and my Int kidneys and my tester said he preferred mine (and as other halves go, he'd tell me if he didn't!). Interestingly, the bought ones fell too. I used Maxicrop every couple of weeks together with watering the rows quite a lot as they suffered from the early drought conditions. Not quite the same as adding vraic but the nearest I could get easily. And in Chiltern chalk I have enough problems with scab without using calcified seaweed as well!!! I'm buying double quantities of seed spuds for next time (as I think I said in the what are you growing next year thread :-) and keeping them better watered as well - think this may have contributed to them falling as they were a bit more floury than I expected. Diary says they were set to chit 6th February, planted 21st March, and first dug 20th June. I must stress I don't have any other homegrown first earlies to compare the taste with - just shop-boughts! Now that's what we all wanted to hear, someone that has tried it successfully, thanks Jane. By the way, you can get Seaweed extract in larger quantities from the Organic Gardening Catalogue or N. A.Kays. (if you can find it!) www.kayshorticulture.com/ www.organiccatalog.com/cgi-bin/index.cgi -- Regards Bob Use a useful Screen Saver... http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/ and find intelligent life amongst the stars. |
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On Sun, 2 Nov 2003 16:53:57 -0000, "Bob Hobden"
wrote: "jane" wrote in message Funny this should arise... this is exactly what I did this year. I've not grown spuds (deliberately!) before and since my Dad loves Jerseys, I hatched a plan to fool him. Largely successfully, he liked the taste and it wasn't until after the test meal was over that I told him what they were. The only thing against them I found was that they fell terribly, so resorted to steaming them in the end. The worst scrapers were those I'd picked over 3-4 days before, so cooked them whole and peeled the skins off when hot. I also did a blind taste test of some bought Jerseys and my Int kidneys and my tester said he preferred mine (and as other halves go, he'd tell me if he didn't!). Interestingly, the bought ones fell too. I used Maxicrop every couple of weeks together with watering the rows quite a lot as they suffered from the early drought conditions. Not quite the same as adding vraic but the nearest I could get easily. And in Chiltern chalk I have enough problems with scab without using calcified seaweed as well!!! I'm buying double quantities of seed spuds for next time (as I think I said in the what are you growing next year thread :-) and keeping them better watered as well - think this may have contributed to them falling as they were a bit more floury than I expected. Diary says they were set to chit 6th February, planted 21st March, and first dug 20th June. I must stress I don't have any other homegrown first earlies to compare the taste with - just shop-boughts! Now that's what we all wanted to hear, someone that has tried it successfully, thanks Jane. By the way, you can get Seaweed extract in larger quantities from the Organic Gardening Catalogue or N. A.Kays. (if you can find it!) www.kayshorticulture.com/ www.organiccatalog.com/cgi-bin/index.cgi http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&cr=countryUK|countryGB&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=kelp+fertilizer&spell=1 finds dozens of places selling kelp based fertilzers. -- Martin |
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They are called International Kidney
"Stuart York" wrote in message ... Can anyone help me?? I think jersey royals can be bought as first earlys, but under what name and where? Thanks in advance. Elaine |
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from "Bob Hobden" contains these words: It's also a Scottish crofters method. Fresh off the beach in huge quantities, dug in or mulched on top of the soil. In coastal areas, there is so much airborne and rain borne salt constantly landing on soil and plants,that any on seaweed makes no difference. I've applied tons of seaweed with no problems and wonderful results. So Janet, with all that seaweed are you able to grow proper tasting Jersey Royals especially as you are also probably on granite? Haven't tried Jersey Royals, but any other new baby potatoes grown with seaweed taste fabulous:-) I'll see if I can get some to try, though as you probably know, not all potato varieties are available in Scotland, something to do with protecting the certified-seed-potato growers from disease. This year I grew Arran Pilot, just because they were bred here. The whole veg garden had to be deepdug, to remove the invasive roots of an ash tree, so I incorporated loads of seaweed into the trenches then put a very thick mulch on the soil surface after planting. You can't see any sign of it now except as a darker richness in the soil, it's all decomposed. I'm not on granite. Arran is diverse geologically, the north end is rocky high and steep with thin soil. The highest point, central spiky lump of granite called Goatfell, is across Brodick bay (looking north from here). The south end of the island is rolling green hills, the most fertile area. Our garden is on very deep sandy loam, hardly any stones in it, light easy digging and freedraining. We've just back from collecting 40 sacks of newly washed-up fresh seaweed, smells delicious :-) Janet (Isle of Arran) |
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On Sun, 02 Nov 2003 17:56:23 +0100, martin wrote:
~On Sun, 2 Nov 2003 16:53:57 -0000, "Bob Hobden" wrote: ~ ~ ~"jane" wrote in message ~ ~ Funny this should arise... this is exactly what I did this year. I've ~ not grown spuds (deliberately!) before and since my Dad loves Jerseys, ~ I hatched a plan to fool him. Largely successfully, he liked the taste ~ and it wasn't until after the test meal was over that I told him what ~ they were. snip! ~ ~ ~Now that's what we all wanted to hear, someone that has tried it ~successfully, thanks Jane. By the way, you can get Seaweed extract in larger ~quantities from the Organic Gardening Catalogue or N. A.Kays. (if you can ~find it!) ~ ~www.kayshorticulture.com/ ~www.organiccatalog.com/cgi-bin/index.cgi ~ ~http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&cr=countryUK|countryGB&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=kelp+fertilizer&spell=1 ~ ~finds dozens of places selling kelp based fertilzers. Thanks chaps. That will be very useful! -- jane Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone, you may still exist but you have ceased to live. Mark Twain Please remove onmaps from replies, thanks! |
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