When are you planting out your spuds?

[Bumblingbroccoli]

When are you all planning to plant out your potatoes? And do you plant them all in one go or space the planting out out? Given heatwave last year, considering planting maincrop at same time as earlies so less effected by heat but maybe that's a bad idea...

[gardening_gal]

Following this question with interest.

[cariann88]

I was going to plant my first earlies this weekend but depending on the weather I might wait until it gets better before planting.

[bikermike]

This month, assuming the sogginess goes down a bit. (I also need to make the beds up as well). I'm going to do the same as last year - dig a line of turf up and turn it over and plant in it using a bulb-planter. I'm trying one bed which is raised by putting turf cut from other places upside down on the soil. This year, I'm hoping I've got my measurements right so it does end up in the middle of the planned bed, not the path as I did last year...

more urgency for earlies than maincrops.

[Atta]

End of this month begging of April.

[Thelma Sanders]

Once this bout of stormy weather finishes mine will go in, earlies first, of course - but the rest all go in within a few days.
I was taught that maincrop spuds are harvested later because they take longer to grow tubers, not because they get planted later

[bramble]

I hope to plant mine this weekend.
Always try to get them in before St. Patrick's day.
Hopefully the weather will comply.
First earlies and the ground has been covered for the past week.

[roitelet]

19th April, St Joseph, the traditional day here.

[Bren In Pots]

My Charlottes usually go in during the first week of April.

[burnie]

My tatties are still chitting and as snow is forecast over the weekend, it will be while yet before anything goes in the ground.

[Jungle Jane]

I’d start now if I had time,four bags of earlies are first to go in then all the main crop next when there’s time. I sow a few bags of earlies a month up til around June. Spreads out the harvest for a longer cropping time.

[Penellype]

I've planted some of the earlies - Nicola and Maris Bard, in buckets in my friend's greenhouse and under cover at the allotment. I will be planting more at home as soon as the wind eases - I need to cover them with plastic sheeting and there is no point in trying to do that in a howling gale.

[greenishfing]

I already have the borders of 2 greenhouses planted.I have got lots of potatoes chitting on my windowsills and they are ready to be planted but my allotment is just too boggy. I will start planting them out when the soil dries out a lot and the temperature rises. Until then my windowsills have to suffer.

[Aberdeenplotter]

Goodness me sit on your hands for a while you folks thinking of planting now and consider when your last frosts are. We can have frosts up here in June!! I aim to plant on 20th April annually although last year it was in to May.

[SarrissUK]

I'm keen to get started with the spuds, but not in a rush to get them in ground. It's been really cold here this week, and frosts are very likely to come again.