Potatoes grown for washing by P. Caunce & Son for the whole sale and retail markets. See the crop growing in the fields of P. Caunce & Son at Brow Farm. (Nadine, Cara, Estima, Nicola) all grown for washing grading and packing. Also supplying Desiree, Fambo, Harmony, Robinta, Charlotte, King Edwards, Maris Piper, Navan, Wilja, Sante, Saxon, Romano, Pentland Dell, Maris Peer, Marfona, Pentland Crown, Penta) POTATOES. We are also PRODUCE BROKERS. P. Caunce & Son, potatoes, washed potatoes, ware potatoes, whole sale, retail, baby roasters, mids, best washed potatoes, mids, bakers, washed whites, washed reds, Nadine, Cara, Estima, Nicola, Desiree, Fambo, Harmony, Robinta, Charlotte, King Edwards, Maris Piper, Navan, Wilja, Sante, Saxon, Romano, Pentland Dell, Maris Peer, Marfona, Pentland Crown, Penta, brow farm, P. Caunce & Son......... We finally made a start getting the ground ready for planting potatoes. We are more than a month late this year because of all the wet weather we have had. We plant potatoes on 72 ins butts. Four rows on a butt. They are planted at deferent distance's apart depending on what the crop is being grow for and what variety is being planted. The potatoes are picked up in cups and placed in a furrow by the potato planting machines. The seed potatoes are kept in 1 ton bulk bags after they have been graded and the rejects have been removed. They are then treated to stop them from going rotten and from getting any diseases before they are planted. Rain showers and sun shine seem to be the order of the day. It shows how long a farming year is we are harvesting and washing last years crop in one field. Then planting this years crop in the next field. The Cara are now ready for rouging up then they will be sprayed for blight this will be the second application in the blight spray program. It will be a stemic spray we use which means the plant takes the spray into the leaf. This is only used in the early stage of plant grow. After this a contact spray is used the plant does not take this up so it does not get into the leaf or the tubers as they grow. Spraying the Nadine for blight. Depending on the weather condition we spray for blight every 10 to 14 days, and has close as 7 days if the weather is hot and damp. This is ideal for the spread of blight. The Estima tops are long sins dead we sprayed them of over a mouth ago. You can also see that meadow grass is growing on the top of the butts now that it can get light. Also along side were the harvester as left the tops and weeds when we dug the potatoes This is the first time we have been able to lift potatoes in over a week. We have had to start a new field. The field is not the moss land so we can not bring of large loads in the trailers or they will just go down with it being so soft on this kind of land. The potatoes we digging here are Nadine. More heavy rain is forecast so we may not be digging for long. It's finally dried enough for us to make a start at harvesting the potatoes we had to leave in the field last year. We were surprised as to how well they came out of the ground. Our thinking was that the frost and wet whether would of coursed a lot more to rot away in the ground.
