Vicky wrote ...

Bob Hobden wrote:
Are you finding it difficult to get bales of straw? We have 2 sitting on
the lawn right now, I think Nick pays about 2 quid each from a local
horsey
place for them.
Haven't tried. Got an allotment for my spuds so don't need to try straw
bales other than after they have passed through the horse.

We got a bit tired of all of the digging up and not finding them all. This
year we did them in buried bags. The number of spuds seems to be a lot
smaller, but they're an /awful/ lot easier to remove, and it will hopefully
stop the millions of potatoes cropping up where they're not meant to next
year.

I always think it's the thorough deep digging looking for spuds every 4
years (4 year rotation) that makes the soil deeply friable. Who needs double
digging when you grow spuds.
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Regards. Bob Hobden.
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