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sean
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 Posted: Fri Aug 24, 12 3:53 pm Post subject: Forget Gold, Buy Potatoes |
 
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Our potato supplier at work reckons that the biggest spud farm round here won't have anything left to sell by Christmas. 
And the wholesale price of spuds is heading up at a time of year when it's usually going down. |
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Rob R
Joined: 28 Oct 2004
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Location: York
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Like most foods, the combination of rising costs, poor prices and bad weather can only have one effect on future supply, and therefore prices. |
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john of wessex
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| Posted: Fri Aug 24, 12 4:37 pm Post subject: |
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Interesting.............
Benefit cuts, rising food prices........ |
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gardening-girl
Joined: 25 Feb 2009
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Location: Somerset.
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So, I need to plant more spuds in the poly-tunnel now. |
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sarahp1
Joined: 16 Jan 2012
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Location: Warwickshire
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I've never tried the Autumn planting spuds - never needed to! But going to give it a go this year. |
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Rob R
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Location: York
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| Posted: Fri Aug 24, 12 6:04 pm Post subject: |
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| john of wessex wrote: |
Interesting.............
Benefit cuts, rising food prices........ |
Interesting, how? |
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NorthernMonkeyGirl
Joined: 10 Apr 2011
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Location: Peeping over your shoulder
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| Posted: Fri Aug 24, 12 6:04 pm Post subject: |
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didn't know you could do it!
Won't the frosts just kill them off though? |
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Penny Outskirts
Joined: 18 Sep 2005
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| Posted: Fri Aug 24, 12 6:12 pm Post subject: |
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Food is an excellent investment at the moment. Tinned and dried goods that keep - will only go up in value and are more inflation proof than savings. |
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john of wessex
Joined: 18 Jun 2007
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| Posted: Fri Aug 24, 12 6:28 pm Post subject: |
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| Rob R wrote: |
| john of wessex wrote: |
Interesting.............
Benefit cuts, rising food prices........ |
Interesting, how? |
The factors that led to The Arab Spring............ |
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sarahp1
Joined: 16 Jan 2012
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Location: Warwickshire
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DawnMK
Joined: 01 Dec 2008
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Location: Buckinghamshire
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| Posted: Fri Aug 24, 12 7:46 pm Post subject: |
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we have some Autum/Christmas potatoes growing in bags and barrels in the tunnel, put them in the other week they are up to the tops already and looking great, also sowed some carrots and beetroot in the tunnels for a late harvest  |
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Ty Gwyn
Joined: 22 Sep 2010
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Location: Lampeter
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| Posted: Fri Aug 24, 12 7:51 pm Post subject: |
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| john of wessex wrote: |
| Rob R wrote: |
| john of wessex wrote: |
Interesting.............
Benefit cuts, rising food prices........ |
Interesting, how? |
The factors that led to The Arab Spring............ |
Do you think Cameron will go that far,as shoot protestors? |
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Rob R
Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 31902
Location: York
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| Posted: Fri Aug 24, 12 7:52 pm Post subject: |
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| john of wessex wrote: |
| Rob R wrote: |
| john of wessex wrote: |
Interesting.............
Benefit cuts, rising food prices........ |
Interesting, how? |
The factors that led to The Arab Spring............ |
Well, you learn something new every day. I get the impression you have more to say on the subject though... |
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Treacodactyl
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Joined: 28 Oct 2004
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Location: Jumping on the bandwagon of opportunism
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| Posted: Fri Aug 24, 12 9:17 pm Post subject: |
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| john of wessex wrote: |
| Rob R wrote: |
| john of wessex wrote: |
Interesting.............
Benefit cuts, rising food prices........ |
Interesting, how? |
The factors that led to The Arab Spring............ |
Better start stockpiling the couscous then. |
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Bebo
Joined: 21 May 2007
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Location: East Sussex
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| Posted: Fri Aug 24, 12 9:23 pm Post subject: |
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| DawnMK wrote: |
| we have some Autum/Christmas potatoes growing in bags and barrels in the tunnel, put them in the other week they are up to the tops already and looking great, also sowed some carrots and beetroot in the tunnels for a late harvest |
I've had success with carrots and beetroot, but my late potatoes last year all succumbed to late blight. I blame the really hot spell we had last October. |
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