mogga wrote in
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Someone on our allotment has weed killed his plot last autumn and is
planning to plant potatoes by sticking the potato on the ground and
covering it with muck.
I don't think he's planning on digging into the soil at all.

Is this going to work? Will it be effective?
(would it be effective on land not weed killed?)


I think that there might be a problem, not with weeds, but with green
spuds.
Will the potatoes grow upwards where the muck is, where it will be loose
and potatoes would possibly be exposed to daylight? Or grow down into firm
soil?

What I have done last autumn is to place cardboard over my soil and then a
fairly thick layer of manure. When planting time comes I will drill with a
bulb planter through the cardboard for each potato.
I am hoping this will stop weeds, and because I have planted them deeply
the manure on top should have compacted they should grow well below.

Only time will tell.

My first earlies will be planted in the traditional way, can't risk them.

Baz