The BALGA Members’ Shop has a sale on seed potatoes. They’re reduced to £1 per kilo. The Members’ Shop is open every Sunday from 10am – 12 pm.
If you’re a new plotholder, why not get started with some seed potatoes?
Potato Weekend 2024
This year we are once again running a pre-ordering service for members so they can place orders online for seed potatoes. Orders are placed on a ‘click and collect’ basis and are dealt with in the order they are received.
Once you have made your order, a committee member will reply within 3 days with the amount you owe. Payment is made on collection from the members’ shop or BACS before collection. Please specify the date you wish to collect your order in the order form below and it will be picked and bagged ready for you on that date.
All stock is subject to availability and stock levels are updated on a weekly basis.
Note: BALGA reserves the right to put back into stock any items not collected within 7 days of the specified collection date.
If you wish to order more than one variety in each category, please use the ‘Additional Potato Order’ sections on the form.
Any additional requirements or comments, please add these to the ‘Additional Information box.
Once you have chosen your varieties, don’t forget to select a collection date before clicking ‘Submit’. A copy of your order will be emailed to you. Please print off a copy and bring it with you when you come to collect your order.
Prices are as follows:
Seed potatoes – £1.30 per kilo
Onion sets – £0.70 per 200g
Shallots – £0.70 per 200g
Compost Sunday
This to let you know that the BALGA shop will be open this Sunday 4 February for compost sales. There will be a special offer this Sunday on Bloom & Grow peat free compost (the price will reduce as you order more bags)
- 1 bag £5
- 2 bags £9
- 3 bags £12
- 4 bags £15
Baldock honey will also be on sale.
The shop will then be shut until Potato weekend 24/25 February.
Price List 2023
The price list has been removed from the website and will be re-published soon to make sure you have access to the latest prices. Thank you for your patience with this and apologies for any inconvenience.
Autumn Delivery 2022
Good news! The onion and shallot sets, garlic, and flowering bulbs have arrived ready to buy from the Members’ Shop on Sunday (10 am-12 pm). The varieties and prices are as follows:
- Onions (Autumn Champion) 80p per 200g
- Shallots (Yellow Moon) 90p per 200g
- Mixed daffs £1.00 for 500g
- Tulips 10 for £2.10.
- Garlic (Thermidrome) 70p
- Baldock garlic 70p
- Elephant garlic 70p.
BALGA Members’ Shop Opening Date
The BALGA Members’ Shop will re-open on Sunday 18th April 2021 (10 am – 12 pm).
The BALGA Members’ Shop will open on Sunday 18 April 2021 and every Sunday thereafter until 21 November 2021 (subject to any future COVID restrictions). The Shop will be open from 10 am until 12 pm. Please observe a social distance.
The price list can be found by clicking here and clicking ‘BALGA Shop 2021 current price list March 2021’ button on the page.
Half Price Onions and Potatoes (July 2020)
Our potatoes and onion sets are now half price! In order to clear the remaining stock we have halved the price of the seed potatoes in the members’ shop down to 50p per Kg. We’ve also reduced the price of the remaining onion sets by 50%, down to 30p per 200g.
Now is the perfect time to plant potatoes for a ‘second cropping’ especially if you fancy serving new potatoes up with your Christmas dinner. Click here for more information on planting Christmas potatoes.
The table below shows our current stock levels in the shop. As you can see, after a very successful delivery service and click and collect service, we have very few potatoes left. So why not come to the members’ shop this Sunday (10am-11am) to take advantage of the half price seed potatoes? Alternatively, you can make a click and collect order, click here to find out more information.
If you’ve just taken on an allotment, now is a good time to prepare an area and plant some seed potatoes. It’s a good way to break up the soil AND enjoy a harvest this summer.
Availability of potatoes, onions and shallots 2019
After a successful few weeks of trading, we have sold out of even more varieties and have limited stock of some of our first earlies, salad potatoes and shallots. It’s not too late to buy your potatoes, onions or shallots, but as we are selling out of certain varieties, you may want to buy your favourite variety as soon as possible at the members’ shop to avoid disappointment.
We have sold out of Casablanca, but Swift is a good alternative because it produces large tubers and it’s one of the fastest maturing first early potatoes.
Setanta is a good main crop potato which you might not have tried before. It is blight resistant, high yielding, has good drought tolerance and is ideal for roasting and mashing. Why not try this as your main crop potato?
We trialled pre-packed potatoes in 2.5kg bags this year and they have proved to be very successful with nearly all the bags sold. We still have Cara, Kestrel and Setanta available in pre-packed 2.5kg bags, although the Cara and Kestrel pre-packs are nearly gone.
With all the poor weather we’ve been having, it’s a great time to buy potatoes and let them chit until you’re ready to plant them out. The members’ shop is open every Sunday 10am-12pm or click here to take advantage of our pre-order form to save time as your order will be ready for you on collection. Click here to see a full list of potatoes still available as well as more information about each variety.