How are you planting your tatties........

[redser]

Great photo. Be sure to keep a photo record of ow it works out!

[alldigging]

I planted mine on top of a layer of muck in some compost from my heap. And then covered that will a pile of not so finished compost from the garden compost bin. I used a bulb planter to plant.

I did drop the box of spuds though so need to dig out the photo to work out which was which.

[horticultural_hobbit]

I bulb planter-ed mine. Have a real aversion to digging. Majority when into raised beds, into a poop. The Sante and Cara, went into open clay.

Ma spotted King Ed Shoots today; all had been in a month exactly. Had a furtle for others. There were roots, but not shoots yet. Intrigued about the Sante and Cara in the clay.

[binley100]

tatties have been spotted heading through the holes in the cardboard......must take a photo next time I'm there.....

[binley100]

Time for an update..........first earlies,rocketsecond earlies, kestrel and mains , king edwards (there's others there too but can't remember names or whats what )

[binley100]

The wind ripped the cardboard round the rocket so I've been chucking on grass clippings ......also the ones in the builders bags......

[Norfolk drew]

Looking good binley 100 , I feel like a cheat as I grow mine in baulks made with a tractor

[veggiechicken]

Finished planting mine today in trowel holes in the ground under an apple tree. I'm also growing some in cardboard boxes that are being "earthed " up with newspaper and nettles Got some in flower buckets too, a few in the GH, most outdoors.
I do like a bit of variety

[binley100]

Hoping for a good crop as there's one fella (couple of plots down) who reckons I'll get nowt .......He said he tried some under polythene once and they were rubbish . Fingers crossed .......

[veggiechicken]

Under polythene - pffft. No wonder he failed. You'll beat him, no probs

[redser]

The wind ripped the cardboard round the rocket so I've been chucking on grass clippings ......also the ones in the builders bags......

Are you earthing up with old leaves there? I tried this on a few buckets as I had no more materials or compost. Was worried it might rot the stems but its working out fine! I think it might be worth collecting a few black bags worth next autumn for the following season for this purpose alone!

[binley100]

There's a layer of compost mixed with llama poop (about 12" deep ) then tatties, then the rest is leaves ..had to be done , got nowt else

[redser]

Doing the job free and abundant, I'll be doing it again next year

[marchogaeth]

Bins, your potatoes look fantastic. I love the cardboard mulch look. My Wilja have been up for about 10 days and the Sarpo Mira are starting to appear just when I thought I'd killed them by planting them at deep as Chris! They are going to have their work cut out to produce a crop before blight strikes if they aren't resisitant. I usually have to admit defeat by the end of July.

I was very dubious about the idea of using plastic this year as I thought we just weren't getting the weather to warm the soil underneath and there was just a danger of trapping cold and wet in. Too dodgy on the slug front for me, too. I'm struggling with green mulches straight on the soil although it's great for knowing where to look for them and eel worm lavae.

[horticultural_hobbit]

Mine now look really very ugly: