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Potato Planting
Potato Planting
There are a number of ways to plant potatoes, the method I used last year and have decided to use again this year, is to use a planter, similar to a bulb planter, it takes out a cylinder of earth up to 8inches deep, then you drop the potato in the hole and drop the soil back on top. This is better than digging out a trench. I make sure that the potatoes are chitted, and that there is no damage to the tuber and that it is firm not soft.
When I have planted the row I cover the row with Potato fertiliser, this will gradually be washed into the soil as the potatoes begin to grow. Giving strong plants from the start.
Comments
Message from 1223trucker
Posted on 14th May 2010
I use a home-made 'implement' to plant my spuds. An old gardener I knew years ago had one that everyone used to borrow off him. It's like a large dibber I made out of an apple tree pruning, I never have to bend my back planting spuds. I string out the row, dibble my holes, drop the spuds in, scuff the soil over between my feet to cover and form a slight ridge, then lastly, throw on the fertilizer (pelleted chicken manure) My spuds got off to a famous start, but the last three nights frost has absolutely desquimated them! Hope fully they'll come again, time wil tell as the song goes.
Message from Jaydel
Posted on 07th May 2010
Hi, wev'e only just got our allotment ready for planting as it was in such a mess when we got - I am too late to plant potatoes?
Message from potjug
Posted on 02nd April 2010
oilpainter,
Not everybody likes baked potatoes!!
Message from craigster
Posted on 02nd February 2010
This is my first year doing any kind of veg watsoever any good tips for the best possible way to do potatoes
Message from tessagalloway2000
Posted on 23rd September 2009
in the Outer Hebrides I helped plant potatos in 'lazy beds'..they simply lift the turf up and pop the spud ON the soil, cover with the turf and hey presto! I wonder how that would work here, i must give it a go on one row and see!
Message from oilpainter
Posted on 22nd March 2009
Why do you English people plant your poataoes so deep? We plant only about 3 inches deep and then hill the soil up around the plants, so the potatoes grow in warm soil.
Message from maggi
Posted on 09th March 2009
Most garden centres do them but maybe not at the moment, more of an autumn line I suppose. We have 2 or 3, not sure why as in our soil they are pretty useless for planting bulbs. At the moment I don't have space to grow potatoes in the ground so I do mine in bags. Don't grow as many as you guys though!
Message from cradleymike
Posted on 09th March 2009
I borrow one from the guy on the next plot not sure where he got it from.
Message from bucko65
Posted on 08th March 2009
where you get 1 from im in manchester
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