Potato Tubers Mark Start of Spring!
The new gardening season has now officially started! How do I know? Because our delivery of seed potatoes has arrived.
It may seem very early but many potatoes can be planted in March – May, and even earlier if you are growing in a polytunnel or in a greenhouse.
Chitting potatoes (encouraging them to sprout before planting) can lead to an earlier harvest than planting directly into the ground. This is done by placing the seed potatoes into an open container such as an egg box, in a light, airy and frost free position.
Traditionally potatoes have been planted in the garden around Easter time, by chitting the potatoes they will grow shoots and be ready for planting out from late March or earlier if in a frost free environment.
Tips for planting;
- Dig 5″ deep trenches
- Enriched with well-rotted manure, chicken manure pellets or other potato fertiliser
- Taking care not to damage the chitted shoots
- When the leaves start to emerge draw the earth up the sides of the plants using a draw hoe (covering the leaves)
- This will protect against late frosts and prevent light from reaching the growing potato tubers, and will encourage a higher yield
- Remember to water the plants regularly during dry spells
- Potatoes are ready for harvest in around 10 weeks
Scottish Grown First Early Potatoes available are:
Arran Pilot – A white fleshed variety with a firm waxy texture which holds together when cooked, making it a good “new” potato variety. Plant in March to harvest in July.
Athlete – Good crops of small pale yellow fleshed potatoes. A good salad potato with excellent flavour. Plant in March/April to harvest in July/August.
Duke of York – A popular variety in the Borders with a dry mealy texture and is excellent for baking. Plant in March/April to harvest in July/August.
Epicure – The original “Ayrshire new potato” and has a deep cream skin and white flesh. Great for boiling or for baking. Plant in March/April to harvest in July/August.
International Kidney – When grown on Jersey this potato is known around the world as the Jersey Royal, and is one of the best flavoured new potatoes. Quick to mature, this potato should be planted in March/April to harvest from June.
Maris Bard – A popular and widely grown variety with white waxy flesh. A good all rounder variety suitable for boiling, chipping, mashing, roasting and baking. Plant in March/April to harvest in July/August.
Pentland Javelin – A white skinned, white waxy fleshed potato which makes a good boiled potato and great for salad use. Plant in March/April to harvest in July/August.
Rocket – A quick maturing variety suited to growing in containers or in potato bags, which reliably produces high yields. Good for boiling. Plant in March/April for harvest in June/July.
Sharpes Express – A pale yellow fleshed potato with a mealy texture which holds its shape well when cooked. An excellent potato for mashing. Plant in March/April for harvest in July/August.
Organic Colleen – Excellent blight resistance makes this a suitable variety for organic gardeners. A good all rounder, suitable for boiling, chipping and baking. Plant in March/April for harvest in July/August.
Scottish Grown Second Early Potatoes available are:
Catriona – A firm mealy textured potato good for chips and baking. Plant in March/April to harvest in August/September.
Charlotte – Our best selling variety which boils well to make an outstanding salad potato. Also makes a surprisingly good baked potato if left to grow bigger. Plant in March/April to harvest in August/September.
Nadine – With cream flesh and a moist waxy texture, producing high yields. Good for boiling and for baking, and stores right through the winter. Good blight resistance. Plant in March/April to harvest in August/September. (One of our personal favourites).
Wilja – A firm, dry textured all rounder suitable for all cooking uses, but particularly useful as a baking potato. Plant in March/April to harvest in August/September.
MORE SECOND EARLY VARIETIES WILL BE AVAILABLE IN MARCH
The Scottish grown maincrop variety currently available are:
Pink Fir Apple – Producing bumper crops of knobbly long tubers with a firm flesh and strong flavour. Good drought resistance. Excellent new and salad potato that stores well. Great for chips, although they can be strangely shaped! Plant in March/April to harvest in September/October. (Another firm favourite).
Please note that we sell all the above varieties in nets, and we can also sell them as individual tubers, meaning you can buy as many, or as few as you like. Also, we will have more maincrop varieties available in March.
There are also “Taster Packs” available (in packs of 10 tubers), of the following varieties for you to try:
Carlingford – This is a second early variety which is suitable for all round use in the kitchen. It has good disease resistance and is an excellent variety for containers or potato bag planting. Plant in March/April to harvest July/September.
Inca Bella – A maincrop variety with a creamy texture and a nutty flavour, and with a speckled red skin. Good for baking and roasting. Plant in March/April to harvest August/September.
Sarpo Kifli – A maincrop variety from the Sarpo breeding programme which has excellent blight resistance. Unusually for a maincrop type it cooks fine new and salad potatoes. Plant in March/April and harvest July/September (8 tubers per pack).
Highland Burgundy – A maincrop variety with red skin and red flesh inside a white ring. Good for mashing and for chips. Plant in March/April to harvest in September/October.
There’s nothing like home grown potatoes and as always we are happy to offer our expert advice.
Christmas Opening Times
Our Christmas Trees are Here
We stock a lovely range of real Christmas Trees to give a traditional feel and a Christmassy smell to your festive home display. Our freshly cut Christmas trees are available in 3 different varieties:
Nordmann Fir – well known for it’s non needle-drop properties and bushy shape making it, in my opinion, the best Christmas tree of all.
Omorika, or Serbian Spruce – similar to the Norway Spruce, but holds it’s needles better. The Omorika Spruce is the best buy if you are on a limited budget.
Blue Spruce – a lovely eye-catching tree.
Pot-Grown Christmas Trees
We also have a selection of pot-grown living Christmas trees which can be placed indoors for the festive season, and then either planted out in the garden, or potted up into a bigger pot to use again the following Christmas. These are available as a Nordmann Fir and as a Norway Spruce (needle drop isn’t a problem with growing trees), and make delightful table-top Christmas trees.
Christmas Wreaths
I’ve also made a good start on making fresh Christmas wreaths with wreaths suitable for front doors and for the cemetery available now. I’ll be making table decorations, swags and garlands too as we get closer to Christmas. If you’d like to order a wreath please call on 01835 830315.
Or why not make your own, we have a handful of spaces left on our wreath making courses next Wednesday and Thursday. Please phone the shop on the same telephone number to get up to date availability information.
Hints and Tips for Feeding the Birds
In winter weather all birds need to eat around 40% of their body weight every day. They need as many calories as possible, so feed with the highest calorie foods possible.
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- The best food is sunflower seeds, either as hearts or as seed with the husks. They are quickly digested and converted into energy. Suet pellets, suet blocks and fat balls are also of the highest fat content. Peanuts are also good, but are not as efficient at converting into energy as the other choices.
- Peanuts can go “off” quickly when outside, so only put out a weeks supply at a time.
- Seed can be given all year round. We use the Feeder Seed in all our tube feeders as this attracts a good variety of birds, but remember to give high calorie foods as an extra in bad weather
- Not all birds can perch on the hanging feeders, so don’t forget to provide food for the ground feeders such as blackbirds and robins. A table seed is ideal.
- Avoid giving bread – not only does it attract vermin, but it has little or no nutritional content for the birds. Birds can actually starve to death eating bread as it fills them up and makes them too lethargic to go hunting for nutritional foods.
- Feed the birds as early in the day as possible – remember they have been huddling all night against the cold and they need a boost as early as possible to give them the energy to forage for more food.
- Feed the birds all year round as they depend on us to compensate for habitat loss. Avoid feeding whole peanuts in the Spring as fledglings can easily choke to death on them.
Here at Woodside we stock a large range of CJ Wildlife products in the shop and a good choice of feeding accessories for all gardens.
New Range of Bird Feeders
The design of bird feeders has remained unchanged for decades…..until now! We are really pleased to be offering for sale a brand new range of bird feeders from Europe made from recycled plastic and in several modern designs.
Many of them come with a velcro type band so they can easily be attached to tree trunks or even drainpipes. They all come boxed and are light weight, so ideal for posting off as Christmas presents. I would imagine they would appeal to people in more contemporary style homes, and younger people wanting a “funkier” look. Prices start at just £2.99 for a small fat ball feeder, so they are a great price too!
This seed feeder will fasten to a tree trunk or drain pipe
This feeder has two inserts – one for seed and one for nuts
This fat ball feeder comes with a velcro style fastening, so is easy to fix in place
Any type of feed can be put in this hanging feeder
November at Woodside
New In!
We have just received a delivery of delicious preserves and foodie gift boxes ready for the Christmas season! Laura is having great fun unpacking them. There are several different gift boxes to choose from, as well as individual jams and chutneys, perfect for gifts or to simply stock up your own cupboard.
Winter Opening Times
Please also note that from 1st November our opening hours change to 10-4pm, and remain at these times until next March. We stay open all winter except for Christmas Day, Boxing Day and the 1st & 2nd November.
Upcoming Events
It’s a busy season for us at Woodside and there’s plenty to get involved in! We’ve got some exciting events coming up which you can find out more about here: https://woodsidegarden.co.uk/events. We have lots of opportunities to volunteer in out wildlife garden and you can even bring your tools in to us to sharpen!
For your own garden, it’s the season to place your orders for bare-rooted fruit trees and hedging plants. Christmas Wreaths are also available to order, and, on the topic of Christmas, we have a Christmas Evening menu on the 14th December!
For more information about any of these things, just ask a member of shop staff for details.
We have added some lines to our half price clearance sale!
These ‘Topiary Planters’ are beautiful frost-proof pots in green or dark brown with an attractive topiary motif. A variety of sizes are available with prices starting at £3.99 – so at half price you would only pay £2. They are perfect for planting bulbs! For best results use Dalefoot Bulb Planting Compost.
Our quirky metallic hedgehogs are just desperate for a new home! These are also half price and were £34.99 meaning they are now just £17.50. Perhaps a fun Christmas present for someone who is hedgehog mad?
That’s all for now!
Pre-Christmas Clear Out
Now the evenings are drawing in it’s time for us to have an autumn clear out at Woodside.
Box of Bargains
Near the shop door we have a selection of reduce items which are either slow-movers or discontinued lines. Here you will find Flexi-tube reduced from £7.50 to £5 and Rootgrow Tubs reduced from £45.99 to £32.99 – a great purchase if you’re planning on doing lots of planting either this autumn or next year. Other items in the “box of Bargains” are priced from just 50p.
Tubs of Rootgrow reduced from £45.99 to £32.99. Easy to store over the winter for use next spring
Also on Offer
Silent Roar cat repellent is on Buy One Get One FREE offer. This product is made from real essence of lion poo and will help prevent cats from fouling in freshly dug over areas of your garden. This is very useful at this time of year when there are empty spaces in the vegetable garden. Once applied it lasts up to three months.
Growmore, Fish, Blood & Bonemeal are also on special offer with the large boxes (6/7 kg) now reduced from £9.99 each to just £6.99 each. These will keep until next year if stored in a dry space, and are recommended for spring feeding of the garden. In addition Bonemeal is our recommended feed for use all year round at planting time. Simply add a handful to the bottom of your planting hole before mixing in with soil or compost. Suitable and recommended for all bulbs, shrubs, fruit bushes and trees.
Hetton Companion Seat is reduced from £199.99 to £159.92. The timber is treated to make it suitable to stay outside all year round.
Hetton Companion Seat set. Now £159.92. 4 sets available
We have lots of fresh stock arriving this week – keep up to date on Facebook at Woodside Plant Centre and Birdhouse Tearoom. We have a £25 Woodside voucher for a lucky Facebook user, chosen at random, who likes and shares our page this week. Winner to be announced next Monday.
Equestrian Theatre performance in the Woodside garden
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Yes, it’s nearly time for our annual Equestrian Theatre performance in the Woodside garden.
This year’s performance is ” The Age of Nottingham”, so I’m guessing lots of goodies, baddies, highwaymen and references to Robin Hood! The event takes place on 14th July at 7pm (gates open 6.15pm) and tickets can be booked by phoning 01835 830315. The prices are; Adult £18, Under 16 £12, Family (2+3) £50, under 3’s free. Your ticket also includes a two-course buffet supper.
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Naomi’s amazing Summer Pimms cake
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Sunny Weekend here at Woodside
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We’re all set for a sunny weekend here at Woodside, and it’s been another busy couple of weeks with deliveries of new plants and other lovely goodies to tempt you.
Laura and the plant centre team have been busy unpacking new deliveries of gardening related gifts in the shop. Look out for our NEW range of Woodstock Chimes – these special chimes are all musically tuned to create a harmonious sound when the wind catches them. A really lovely addition to the garden in summer, and a thoughtful gift item too. For a bit of fun have a look at the dog tail hooks – perfect for hanging up dog leads or keys, and sure to bring on a smile.
On the plant side of things we have had lots of fresh deliveries this week. New in from the world-renowned and multiple Chelsea Flower Show gold medal winning nursery, Hilliers, is a delightful selection of Heucheras. If you don’t know these plants, I can’t sing their praises highly enough! They have striking evergreen foliage in a wide range of shades from fresh green and orangey yellow to deep purples. The image above should give you some idea of the colours that they come in. In the summer they produce little bells of flowers above the foliage. Heucheras are a perennial, clump forming plant that grow best in light shade in a soil that is not prone to drought or waterlogging. Some of the darker leaved varieties will tolerate full sun. Varieties we have available this week are Lime Marmalade, Forever Purple, Caramel and Midnight Rose (pictured below). Midnight Rose is one of my favourites with the foliage being splashed with pink flecks. All are priced at £9.99 each, and offer great value for money as they look good for most of the year.
We have also now got the dwarf Buddleia Buzz in stock in Candy Pink and in Indigo. These plants were new on the market a few years ago and proved to be a great success. They still require pruning hard in the spring to keep their size in check, but don’t get nearly as tall as the davidii varieties. Plant in full sun in the ground, or in a large pot, and just watch the butterflies come!
Dahlias are really useful for colour in the garden in mid-summer through to the autumn, and what better variety than the dark leaved Bishop of Llandaff with its rich red flowers. Keep dead-heading this and the flowers will keep coming. We now have these in stock, and they have masses of buds on them – just ready for planting out in the garden. Although these are a perennial variety, in reality they rarely survive the winter in our gardens – you could put them in a big pot and over-winter them in a greenhouse or conservatory if you can be bothered. They are so spectacular and flower for so many weeks, that even if they die off over the winter you’ll have had terrific value for money – they’re much cheaper than a bouquet of flowers and will last many times longer!
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Heuchera Midnight Rose
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Buddleia Buzz
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Dahlia Bishop of Llandaff
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Hello from a busy Woodside
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Hello from a busy Woodside, with lots of new deliveries of plants, furniture, roses, compost and much more arriving daily keeping us all on our toes!
After glorious weather this bank holiday we are now getting restocked and this week we are getting deliveries of: herbs, strawberries, herbaceous plants, bedding plants, roses (which are late in this year due to banking issues with TSB – apologies to all who have been waiting for them), shrubs, 13cm Rockery and Herbaceous plants at 3 for £10, cucumbers, peppers and tomatoes.
Naomi and the tearoom team have also had a busy time, and the oven has been full of delicious cakes ready to serve and enjoy. Look out for our new Pimms Cake for ultimate indulgence!
I’ve also got some dates for your diary:
Friday 11th May – Evening Dining in the Kailyaird Restaurant. – see menu below. Please book a table on 01835 830315.
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Saturday 12th May – Basket Making Workshop with Roger Ingledew. We still have some spaces left for this popular workshop, which requires no previous experience. Roger will provide all the materials and tuition you need to create a basket to take home and show off! £60 per person including lunch. 10am – 3pm. A great way to spend a day. Please book by phoning 01835 830315
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Tuesday 22nd May – Volunteer day in the Woodside Garden for Wildlife and Wellbeing. Come along to an informal session in our newly re-launched charity garden, find out how you can help as a volunteer, and enjoy some light gardening work under the direction of our gardener Joanne. FREE. Please call us on 01835 830315 to let us know some idea of numbers. 10am start – flexible finish time!
Saturday 16th June – Willow weaving workshop with Roger Ingledew. Make a willlow wig-wam for all your climbing plants. Again, you don’t need to have any experience and all materials, tuition, and lunch are all provided for £60 per person. 10am – 3pm. Book by phoning 01835 830315
Saturday 14th July – Equestrian Theatre at Woodside “The Age of Nottingham”. Unique entertainment featuring beautiful Fresian and Andalusian horses, suitable for adults and children. Ticket price includes a two-course buffet supper. Gates open at 6.30pm. Adults £18, under 16’s £12. Family ticket £50. Tickets available soon.
Kailyaird Restaurant Menu – 11th May
Starters: Warm pear, walnut and parmesan salad, Roasted garlic and chickpea pate with garlicky oatcakes, or Pea and pesto soup with rye bread
Main courses: Slow cooked Moroccan lamb stew with spiced cous-cous, Mushroom risotto, Spiced halloumi on a bed of warm puy lentils, with a spinach and beetroot salad, or Thai style root vegetable casserole.
Puddings: Chocolate mousse, Rhubarb and ginger brulee, Pimms jelly or cheese and biscuits.
Please phone to book a table. Please let us know if you have any dietary requirements when booking. If you can’t make it this week to our evening restaurant our next date is May 25th.
See you soon,
Emma
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