really thick question about spudS!

[urban-gardener]

I put 6 in I think - 5 in a circle round the edge and one in the middle

[fruit&vegvirgin]

blimey urban, those are miles ahead of mine!!! whereabouts are you?

[urban-gardener]

I am in Hounslow, West London - I think the planes that fly right over our house raise the temperature enough to give us a week or twos head start...

[fruit&vegvirgin]

ah, we're on the cold, windy, salt-ridden south coast - maybe that explains it! yours look great.

[Mel]

Mine look like your's Urban too. I'm in South East London and since the weather got more mild in the past few weeks they have started to really come on.

[fruit&vegvirgin]

7!!! I've got 7 up today!!!

[nick the grief]

Congratulation FVV.

I wouldn't Worry VV I still haven't planted my 2nd earlies & maincrop yet! They be up when they're ready.

[eskymo]

I checked my spud bags today and found a few wee shoots pushing up through the soil - yippee! but they're not as big as urban-garderner's spuds. Should I position my bags in direct sunlight or should they be in the shade. They're in the shade at the moment and maybe that's why they're not doing so well.

Advice please!

[sewer rat]

I have all my spuds in - but my excuse is time is short as my impending marriage approaches and the OH gives me lists after list after list of things that need to be done beforehand.
My earlies are in buckets in the greenhouse - Foremost, Arran Pilot and Charlotte and these are literally (tonight) just beginning to show above the initial compost.
My others are outside in beds, already earthed up - Rooster and British Queen. Also have three BQ in a reclaimed cattle mineral feed drum. PFA still to come

[scooby]

i've put in 4 30ft rows. firstearlies are just showing no sign of the rest, the soil has been pretty damp and not very warm here in the southwest but it looks like everyone is in a pretty simalar position

[Alice]

Thanks to everybody for the spud news. It's great to see how everybody getting on. Mine seem to be doing about average. Charlotte and Rooster in buckets in greenhouse up about an inch and looking well. All about seeing what the crop is now.

[Alice]

Urban gardener, thanks for the pics. I have my spinach (beet) in the green house, actually not germinated yet. Have grown it outdoors in tubs and growbags before but not put it outdoors at this time of year. Think maybe I coset plants too much. How hardy is it?

[pigletwillie]

Rat, British Queen are grand and one of my favourites, I am growing Rooster for the first time this year. What are they like?

[urban-gardener]

Hi Alice, mine is doing well. I always have a few spinach plants going through the winter in my plastic greenhouse for baby leaves then, about the end of march, I put some out in my bed - I have not had any fail before but I have only been doing it for 3 years and we have not had any really bad springs by us in that time. The good thing about getting it out early is that you can avoid the worst slug damage that I always seem to get when I plant later.

[voodoo veg]

When I put my potatoes in the tyres what surface do they stand on??? The patio, the soil, plastic sheet on soil?????

As soon as the rain stops I want to get 'em in!!!!!!!!!!!