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Christmas is coming and it's time to
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plant your Christmas potatoes,
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everybody. If you wanting potatoes for
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Christmas, now is the ideal time to
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plant it. Now, most garden centers
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didn't used to sell them, but they're
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getting into it now. More places are
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advertising Christmas potatoes. It's
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starting to get more trendier and lots
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of people are doing them. Now, I tend to
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grow the Christmas potatoes indoors in
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my poly tunnel as the cold frost will
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kill the plants if we get a heavy one.
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Some people do if you're down south,
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it's a bit warmer, but up north, I can't
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risk it. So, we plant them in boxes with
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drainage holes in the bottom. Obviously,
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it costs a lot for the compost, but the
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results of the potatoes are fantastic,
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and I get a great crop. I did it last
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year. It was amazing the crops that we
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got, and I harvested them around
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December time. So, it was absolutely
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amazing. So, I went online and I bought
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3 kg of three varieties of potatoes. I
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didn't realize how many I'd ordered. Too
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many for me. But, we've got three
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varieties. We've got a kilogram of each.
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I'll probably use only about six
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potatoes from each one. There's about 25
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potatoes in each bag. But the varieties
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Pentulant Javelin. So, as you can see,
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there's absolutely loads in the bag.
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I'm going to be sharing these with other
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So, these are great varieties. They're
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all seed potatoes that I purchased. Like
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I said, they didn't used to do seed
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potatoes at this time of year, but more
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and more places are doing them. Even
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garden centers now. You can go to the
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garden center and buy your potatoes uh
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sewing for Christmas. And then the last
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one, Maris Piper. Like I said, three
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great varieties. You can obviously chip
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them if you want to, but I will be
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planting them straight away and getting
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them in so that I get a harvest in
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December. I'm going to be planting them
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in big massive boxes filled with
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compost. I'll probably plant about six
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in each box. Obviously, we're growing
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them indoors. You'll need to keep them
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well watered and should be all right
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around winter time. Uh they won't dry
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out as fast, but you'll need to keep
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them well watered in August and
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September. Obviously, what you could
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always do is have the boxes outside and
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grow them outside and then when it gets
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to October time, bring them inside into
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your greenhouse or poly tunnel and keep
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them warm in there and that will keep
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them alive. So obviously then they'll
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get rain water if you grow them in the
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boxes outside for the time being. So let
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me know if you're going to be growing
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Christmas potatoes. It's worth the
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effort. It's worth the try and it's
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get crops in December because there's
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not much else growing at that time.
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You're not harvesting much at all. So
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let me know. Drop me a comment. Feel
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free to share this to other people to
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encourage other people to grow Christmas
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potatoes. Share it to a lotment groups
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And feel free to like it and give it a
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comment. Until next time everyone,
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remember, keep smiling, keep shining,
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and keep gardening. We better everyone.
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We'll see you all later.
