Potatoes...

[Bex]

When are you planning to plant yours?

[jacob marley]

Hopefully next saturday 13.3.10 if the weather is fine the ground is all ready prepared earlies second earlies and maincrop all at one go..jacob

[Brengirl]

Will it be too early for containers?

[elsie-scot]

Will it be too early for containers?

I am no expert but if it's going to be frosty think you are better wrapping the container or putting in unheated GH. Sure the more knowledgable grapes will keep you right.

Only going to chit them this week as not going to plant until April - bit colder here. Hopefully I'll have got the ground ready by then, if not they'll go into containers.

[Lazgaot]

I started some in containers last week and these are in my unheated GH. It freezes in there overnight but I've got them wrapped in old shredded paper. Fingers crossed they'll turn out ok.

I'll delay planting in the lottie until at least the end of March or mid April.

[COMPOST CORNER]

I checked mine this morning, in containers in unheated GH.
Max/Min thermometer says it didn't get below +2 C, but the compost is solid in the Morrisons flower buckets. They are stood on 1" thick polystyrene and the buckets filled with straw.
Don't know what affect this will have on the seed potato.

[zazen999]

My first few went into pots in the greenhouse a month ago.

My next batch will go into builders bag at the lottie on or around St Patrick's Day; and I will keep going by prepping a bed and popping them in until they are all in.

[Bigmallly]

Some of mine are also in bags of soil in GH.....Hope it's not too cold for them.

[Flummery]

Some in the greenhouse already but I'm waiting for the soil to warm up a bit. Traditionally it's Good Friday which isn't until April 2nd. I might anticipate by a week or so but not much more.

[pipscariad]

Mine have only just arrived today! I will probably leave it to the end of the month to put them in though - mainly because the bed that is alloted for them isn't ready yet.

The farmer who grows tatties in the field opposite my plot (Pembrokeshire is famed for its new potatoes), was planting his this morning. (And he always grows them in the same field too, which strikes me as odd when we get concerned about crop rotation!).

[King Carrot]

I'll be putting a couple of rows of Orla in a cold frame towards the end of the week - would have been done last month but for the really cold weather.

[Twinkle]

put the first earlies in at school today, mostly because we have to have them picked before school breaks up at the end of June.
That said, we are growing them in plastic sacks and I pulled the sacks into the greenhouse to keep them out of the frost and won't put them out for another 2-3 weeks yet.

[Alison]

First lot of earlies will be going into the polytunnel border as soon as it's finished (couple of weeks time hopefully) with the main crops going outside mid April, I think but it may depend on the weather.

[Sanjo]

10 Home Guard grown in 5"/6" pots of compost in the cool greenhouse were very carefully transplanted into their 5 black buckets yesterday. They were through the compost and had a good little root system on them. After transplanting I put them in my home made cloche, each then surrounded with large bubble wrap. I topped up with soil too so that hopefully frost won't get to them. Was lucky doing them this way last year so fingers crossed. The rest of Home Guard and Arran Pilot will go in around Easter, weather permitting. If I have time I shall also plant up charlotte, International Kidney and three big organic Marfona spuds which I found in my daughter's cupboard and which had very strong growth on, and which she would have thrown away if I hadn't got there first!!

[kittykat8]

loads of people have planted theirs in trenches at our allotment last weekend, I did 12 rows and 4 rows the weekend before 16 rows in all plus the ones in the polytunnel there is only 2 of us I think I have got carried away.


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