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I have them in large containers Sam so I have to pick them, it was too much, watering small pots although that is how they are usually grown for exibition.
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C_C_T
on April 29, 2013 at 11:40 PM
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The flowers are beautiful! Are you having to move them up slowly to the top of the pot so that they grow properly! Or is there another method I am unaware of! The growing of them in a pot seemed to be labor intensive when I read about it a few weeks ago! I abandon the idea for this year because of the move! sam 
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sam444
on April 29, 2013 at 9:48 PM
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Re: CC
I don't think blight troubles your crops Justi, but it plagues us and will do until we get more resistant varieties and I expect your ground is quite fertile from what you have told us in the past.
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C_C_T
on April 29, 2013 at 7:38 AM
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Re: Lion
Yes we had the blight so I am just planting earlies under cover. You could do a wild flower garden just scatter the seeds which are always available on line,
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C_C_T
on April 29, 2013 at 7:33 AM
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Adnohr glad you are better. I am planting under cover. I don't know about your supposition. Well a gardener handyman moves slowly to increase his wage.
posted by
C_C_T
on April 29, 2013 at 7:29 AM
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You people are all planting, and I still have snow here on a good part of my land. I was thinking as I read your post that even as a child I could plant more than 10 potatoes and hour - and did each year in fact. Women probably have more heart problems than men because they care more.....
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adnohr
on April 29, 2013 at 4:37 AM
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I have given up on potatoes for this year as I planted in too many parts of the garden last year and all of them got blight :P I think this year will be dedicated to scent and colour instead but then my little bit of garden is not the same scale as yours
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lionreign
on April 29, 2013 at 3:32 AM
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CC
Oh I loved this. I am about to plant potatoes. Didn't know that about the fertilizer.... I loved he poem yes lots of sand..
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Justi
on April 29, 2013 at 12:07 AM
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Re: I dropped a sprouted potato into a pot - large bushel-sized pot -
Oh dear Pat can't you remember your mommy planting potatoes. They will sprout eventually above ground but need to be in the soil to root and produce potatoes naturally. I will not report you to the Cruelty to Potatoes Association. As you are innocent by default. An officer will collect the squirrel for interrogation.
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C_C_T
on April 28, 2013 at 11:35 PM
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Re: Naur
Naut we only like that kind of potato when it is cooked in garlic and butter.
Sadly I read on the net that young women have more heart problems than men of the same age .It makes one wonder why that should be?
than menthan men
posted by
C_C_T
on April 28, 2013 at 11:30 PM
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Re: JS
Well the problem is the cat will not eat dried cat food. Archie does not do the milk round any longer, he keeps coming down to help me out more or less out of boredom. I would not imagine that it does the system any good refraining from drinking, but I admit night time would be not so dusty. Yes the heart is only a muscle, but then the moon is a rock, and we are organisms and must make the best of it. I was just wondering, I might try undercover, digging holes the size of a large pot, filling them with compost and proceed as if they were in pots.
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C_C_T
on April 28, 2013 at 11:24 PM
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Perhaps you could grow a small Date tree A. Well you have a date with destiny. Be happy that's all we can hope for these days.
posted by
C_C_T
on April 28, 2013 at 11:15 PM
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Re: FS
Well they did not spend much in the old days FS., But then most people in the country grew vegetables to survive.
posted by
C_C_T
on April 28, 2013 at 11:13 PM
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Re: Wiley
Hi Brov I seem to have heard that before, especially with the Islanders using seaweed as fertiliser. A lot of potatoes these days taste real earthy I think it is the artificial fertiliser.Have a plate of chips,
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C_C_T
on April 28, 2013 at 11:12 PM
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Re: CCT
Await results Bill can't count our chicks before they are hatched
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C_C_T
on April 28, 2013 at 11:09 PM
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CCT
$I thought of a child toy in the States Mr. Potatohead. They stick plastic facial features on the plastic face. They use to use real potaoes. See they need you sir. BC-A, Bill’s R®st
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BC-A
on April 28, 2013 at 9:04 PM
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ChiffChaff
Until you've had a couple of 'taters from Pfince Edward Island Bro you haven't eaten real taters.
posted by
WileyJohn
on April 28, 2013 at 6:55 PM
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I did not realize the cost involved with gardening, more specifically potatoes. It is amazing what automation has done...I like all of the heart-related imagery.
posted by
FormerStudentIntern
on April 28, 2013 at 3:16 PM
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i never thought much of gardening until recent years...i think i would prefer to grow my own veggies but don't have a clue how to start and with me going to be gone all summer i guess it's a moot point at the moment
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Annicita
on April 28, 2013 at 1:21 PM
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cc
guess the cat food doesnt hurt the birds and some birds regurgitate for the babies. but then the cats go hungry unless you put out enough that might get costly.
the flowers are beautiful, never would have guessed that was a wheel. but then to find a way into my heart i guess someone would have to travel through my mind first. at least that is the route i would want to take myself on the way to ones heart.
didnt realize that archie still delivered milk, as i have delivered mail i know why he got in the habit of not drinking, so did i, but you have to learn to drink all over again. the healthiest thing you can do is drink plenty of water.
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jeansaw
on April 28, 2013 at 1:18 PM
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CCT
I solved my potato shortage as well: I found a pile of them down at the supermarket...And I do like the strategy of using a health inspection as a way into somebody's heart...
posted by
Nautikos
on April 28, 2013 at 11:14 AM
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I dropped a sprouted potato into a pot - large bushel-sized pot -
out on the front porch. So far the sprouts have dried up and Mr. Squirrel has unearthed the potato, so it's half-exposed to wind, rain, etc... I thought it was the exposure to light that brought out the sprouts in the first place, but now that I've provided what I thought it wanted, it has decided to vegetate. As the warden said in "Cool Hand Luke," what we have here is a failure to communicate.
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Pat_B
on April 28, 2013 at 11:13 AM
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