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27 Oct 13, Elizabeth (Australia - sub-tropical climate)

I stop watering them when there leaves start yellowing, once the leaves are fully "dead" harvest.

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21 Oct 13, Jan Grainger (Australia - temperate climate)

I lost a whole lot of potatoes to both slaters and slugs. I used beer traps, etc. but there were too many to contend with. Reluctantly, we had the whole property professionally sprayed and this year have none.

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12 Oct 13, Sarah (Australia - cool/mountain climate)

Another first time potato grower here :) I bought some russet Burbank seed potatoes a few weeks back and was silly enough to just follow the directions on the bag label, which said nothing about letting them shoot before planting. I planted them immediately, then a week later realised the error of my ways so gently dug a few up to see what had happened. They had shoots on them about an inch long, so I replanted them, shoot side up and about 10cm of dirt on top. That was two weeks ago, but no shoots have appeared on the surface. How long should it take? I have my "succession batch" on the floor in an open box in my green house, hoping they'll sprout away soon for planting in a month or so. All advice gratefully received :)

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18 Oct 13, Sarah (Australia - cool/mountain climate)

Well, a week later and two have sprouted... Two that I DIDN'T dig up to check on. It appears digging up those others, despite being as gentle as I could, wasn't a great idea :-S

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05 Oct 13, glennys (Australia - temperate climate)

Where in qld can I buy kestrel seed potatoes .On a bag of kestrel potatoes I bought from a supermarket said"Not to be used for seed potatoes. WHY ? THANKYOU.

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26 Feb 18, Ray (Australia - temperate climate)

I wondered this, and because I wasn't super happy with the answer here, or on a similar discussion on Reddit, I looked into this more. It turns out that it's to do with Western Australia quarantine rules, which explicitly states that potatoes imported from outside of WA have to be labelled

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25 Oct 13, betty (Australia - sub-tropical climate)

bet you bought them from the south Australian company who is a grower and wants a monopoly so states not for use as seed potatoes. I find they are a very good potato if left to sprout seed and are a heavy cropper.

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25 Oct 13, brian (Australia - sub-tropical climate)

the company that markets the kestrel potato bag is from south Australia and the reason for stating not for planting is to stop you growing them. I purchased the very same bag and waited until the potatoes sprouted and then planted without any problems whatsoever

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25 Sep 13, Joerg (South Africa - Semi-arid climate)

Hi Potaoeplanters! I live in North East Namibia and here the potatoe supply by the two supermarkets is very poor. Could someone maybe give me an advise where i could order which seedlings for this area? Thank you for your time and effort Cheers Joerg

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27 Jan 14, sue (South Africa - Semi-arid climate)

livingseeds to buy potatoes. Find them on the internet

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