http://www.allotment.org.uk/garden-diary/82/potatoes-beans-and-giant-vegetables-at-the-nvs/ Vegetable Fruit & Herb Growing on my Allotment Sat, 20 Mar 2010 14:33:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://www.allotment.org.uk/garden-diary/82/potatoes-beans-and-giant-vegetables-at-the-nvs/#comment-3065 John Wed, 02 Jan 2008 09:42:58 +0000 http://www.allotment.org.uk/garden-diary/82/potatoes-beans-and-giant-vegetables-at-the-nvs/#comment-3065 <p>For competition growing you would do best to take a look at the <a href="http://www.allotment.org.uk/vegetable/potato/" rel="nofollow">potato growing articles</a> on this site for the basics and then take a look around the <a href="http://www.nvsuk.org.uk/" rel="nofollow">National Vegetable Society</a>. If you join the society it will put you in touch with champion local growers who can offer guidance and help.</p> For competition growing you would do best to take a look at the potato growing articles on this site for the basics and then take a look around the National Vegetable Society. If you join the society it will put you in touch with champion local growers who can offer guidance and help.

]]> http://www.allotment.org.uk/garden-diary/82/potatoes-beans-and-giant-vegetables-at-the-nvs/#comment-3027 John Roscoe Tue, 01 Jan 2008 14:40:14 +0000 http://www.allotment.org.uk/garden-diary/82/potatoes-beans-and-giant-vegetables-at-the-nvs/#comment-3027 Dear John I am entering a potato growing competition held at my local pub which is in its 63 year and is taken very seriously in the village. The competition works thus. A large number of seed potatoes are made available on a day in March and competitors choose eight seed potatoes each. The variety remains a secret and you take away the potatoes and plant them. When the plants are mature on a given date the organisors dig up the plants and weigh them. One is not allowed to dig up the crop; it has to be done by the organisors thus no fiddling. There are four prizes. The heaviest gross weight,the heaviest six potatoes,the heaviest single potato and the best matched six potatoes. Would you be able to give me some advice on how best to prepare ground, choose potatoes, fertilisation etc for which I would be most grateful. I am not an experienced gardener but have recently moved to North Shropshire and have a house with five acres of land. I would be most happy to drive to your garden if required. Thanking you in anticipation John Roscoe. Dear John
I am entering a potato growing competition held at my local pub which is in its 63 year and is taken very seriously in the village. The competition works thus. A large number of seed potatoes are made available on a day in
March and competitors choose eight seed potatoes each. The variety remains a secret and you take away the potatoes and plant them. When the plants are mature on a given date the organisors dig up the plants and weigh them. One is not allowed to dig up the crop; it has to be done by the organisors thus no fiddling. There are four prizes. The heaviest gross weight,the heaviest six potatoes,the heaviest single potato and the best matched six potatoes. Would you be able to give me some advice on how best to prepare ground, choose potatoes, fertilisation etc for which I would be most grateful. I am not an experienced gardener but have recently moved to North Shropshire and have a house with five acres of land. I would be most happy to drive to your garden if required. Thanking you in anticipation John Roscoe.

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