On Sun, 25 Jun 2017 19:25:04 +0100, Vegegrower
wrote:


I've set all this year's crop away in trenches.

I bedded them in with my own home made compost and I use fertilizer in
the form of cow manure dissolved in water. Basically a couple of trowel
fulls of manure in an old pedal bin bucket and filled with water, then
left a few days for the manure to dissolve in the water.

Now its occurred to me the best way to water the trenches is to hoe a
channel in the along the center of the hilled up trenches so when I
water, its soaks down on top of the potatoes rather then running down
the sides of the hill.
Is it too late to plant potatoes?

I bought some compost [Lidl] and a couple of approx 25l garden pots
with the intention of having a go.

Looked on Ebay for seed potatoes and it seems that I should have done
this in April.

I thought compost was a sort of manure, that probably explains why a
similar attempt a few years back wasn't a success.

I would like to have a go if there are any varieties that can be
planted now. They would be in a shady area also, so I suppose this
wouldn't help?

Regards


AB