Correction of information printed in the Birmingham Post, please read.
Posted Friday 22nd January 2010
Please be aware that details of Garden Organic's Potato Day were incorrectly listed in the Birmingham Post. Potato Day actually takes place on Saturday 30 January (members only) and Sunday 31 January (open to the public). The event is NOT on Sunday 20 January.
Go potty about potatoes at 15th national spud event
A leading local charity is hoping to get more of us growing our own portion of the average 500* potatoes we consume each year with a major spud event on Sunday 31 January 2010.
National Potato Day - an event started fifteen years ago by leading charity, Garden Organic, based at Ryton Gardens in Warwickshire - will be giving budding growers the chance to buy from over 100 different varieties of seed potatoes this January. Meaning that green-fingered gardeners, novice growers, and those inspired to make growing their own a new year’s resolution, can get started right away.
Garden Organic’s Pauline Pears, who has not missed a single Potato Day since the event began, said, ”Many people’s first experience of growing food involves tomatoes, or runner beans, but potatoes are often ignored, and actually they are one of the easiest vegetables to grow, and one that you can start growing very early in the year.”
“What’s great is they can be grown in all sorts of spaces, so if you have an allotment plot, a veg patch or simple patio pot then you can grow potatoes. What’s more so many people find the taste of home grown, freshly dug spuds a taste hard to beat.”
As well as a huge selection of seed potatoes to buy by the tuber, including the less common Edzell Blue, Moulin Rouge and Mona Lisa varieties, visitors to National Potato Day will also have chance to access Garden Organic’s Heritage Seed Library Seed Swap. A once a year chance to lay your hands on rare and endangered vegetable varieties no longer available to buy in the shops.
On the day there will also be talks by potato experts, tours, gardening advice, potato tasting, composting demonstrations and activities to keep the children entertained.
Garden Organic’s National Potato Day on Sunday 31 January (members only day on Saturday 30 January) takes place at Ryton Gardens, near Coventry, 10am – 4pm. Admission applies. Visit www.gardenorganic.org.uk or call 024 76303517 for more information.
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