Many thanks all
I will experiment
not sure where i will find old car tyres but will scout around


"Commercialdiver" wrote in message
...
I've done it in 12 inch wide pots for over xmas earlies in a greenhouse
using
bagged stable manure.

greg

On Tue, 3 Feb 2004 14:05:06 +0000 (UTC), "nambucca"
wrote:

~Many thanks all
~I will experiment
~not sure where i will find old car tyres but will scout around

Try QuikFit or any other local tyre place! They have to pay quite a
lot for safe disposal of the old tyres, so are usually quite happy to
have someone take them away. But do remember to wash them first - you
don't want all the old oil products in your spuds.


--
jane

Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone,
you may still exist but you have ceased to live.
Mark Twain

Please remove onmaps from replies, thanks!

Many thanks all
I will experiment
not sure where i will find old car tyres but will scout around


"Commercialdiver" wrote in message
...
I've done it in 12 inch wide pots for over xmas earlies in a greenhouse
using
bagged stable manure.

greg

On Tue, 3 Feb 2004 14:05:06 +0000 (UTC), "nambucca"
wrote:

~Many thanks all
~I will experiment
~not sure where i will find old car tyres but will scout around

Try QuikFit or any other local tyre place! They have to pay quite a
lot for safe disposal of the old tyres, so are usually quite happy to
have someone take them away. But do remember to wash them first - you
don't want all the old oil products in your spuds.


--
jane

Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone,
you may still exist but you have ceased to live.
Mark Twain

Please remove onmaps from replies, thanks!

On Tue, 3 Feb 2004 14:05:06 +0000 (UTC), "nambucca"
wrote:

~Many thanks all
~I will experiment
~not sure where i will find old car tyres but will scout around

Try QuikFit or any other local tyre place! They have to pay quite a
lot for safe disposal of the old tyres, so are usually quite happy to
have someone take them away. But do remember to wash them first - you
don't want all the old oil products in your spuds.


--
jane

Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone,
you may still exist but you have ceased to live.
Mark Twain

Please remove onmaps from replies, thanks!

David Hill wrote:

".........I am thinking of lining a dustbin with a bin liner (both to have
drainage holes) and growing some in it cos I guess its easy to pile in
soil
to earth up experience/advice please....."

This is where Bob Flowerdew's "Car tyres" would be good.
Use your bin liner folded down to one tyre height then as the potatoes
start sprouting then add a tyre, raising the sides of the bag as you go,
then each time the shoots get to be 8 or so inches add a tyre and earth up
taking care not to cover the top of the plants, this way the plants won't
get to leggy as they will have plenty of light.
If you use a Bin then the plants are going too stretch for the light, and
it is from the leaf nodes that you get the potatoes formed, so the more
nodes the more potatoes.


Going to have a go with car tyres and a well pierced bin liner myself this
year.

I've got some ex Tesco spuds chitting away nicely in an eggbox on the
kitchen window sill. What should be a good time to plant them out?

I've never grown taters before, sny pointers welcome!

TIA

--
Regards, Charles

cthorp at ukfsn dot org
"I really cannot tolerate intolerance"

David Hill wrote:

".........I am thinking of lining a dustbin with a bin liner (both to have
drainage holes) and growing some in it cos I guess its easy to pile in
soil
to earth up experience/advice please....."

This is where Bob Flowerdew's "Car tyres" would be good.
Use your bin liner folded down to one tyre height then as the potatoes
start sprouting then add a tyre, raising the sides of the bag as you go,
then each time the shoots get to be 8 or so inches add a tyre and earth up
taking care not to cover the top of the plants, this way the plants won't
get to leggy as they will have plenty of light.
If you use a Bin then the plants are going too stretch for the light, and
it is from the leaf nodes that you get the potatoes formed, so the more
nodes the more potatoes.


Going to have a go with car tyres and a well pierced bin liner myself this
year.

I've got some ex Tesco spuds chitting away nicely in an eggbox on the
kitchen window sill. What should be a good time to plant them out?

I've never grown taters before, sny pointers welcome!

TIA

--
Regards, Charles

cthorp at ukfsn dot org
"I really cannot tolerate intolerance"

".....What should be a good time to plant them out?....."

depends where you are.
West Wales farmers try to plant around St David's day.
Cornwall could be a week or so earlier, whilst Scotland could be a month or
so later....depending which side of Scotland you are.


--
David Hill
Abacus nurseries
www.abacus-nurseries.co.uk

On Tue, 03 Feb 2004 16:08:14 +0000, Charles Thorpe
wrote:

This is where Bob Flowerdew's "Car tyres" would be good.

I tried the tyre method a few years ago. (tyres from Quickfit!!)
The trouble was I ended up with a huge ants nest and not a lot of
potatoes. Maybe I didn't water enough.
So beware!

Pam in Bristol

"jane" wrote in message
...
On Tue, 3 Feb 2004 14:05:06 +0000 (UTC), "nambucca"
wrote:

~Many thanks all
~I will experiment
~not sure where i will find old car tyres but will scout around

Try QuikFit or any other local tyre place! They have to pay quite a
lot for safe disposal of the old tyres, so are usually quite happy to
have someone take them away. But do remember to wash them first - you
don't want all the old oil products in your spuds.

Be careful how many tyres you get from them. They will let you have as many
as you want, for reasons already mentioned, but they will *never* want them
back. Disposal then becomes your problem. You're not allowed to dump them,
you're not allowed to burn them, I think you're supposed to eat them or
something.

Steve

David Hill wrote:

".....What should be a good time to plant them out?....."

depends where you are.
West Wales farmers try to plant around St David's day.
Cornwall could be a week or so earlier, whilst Scotland could be a month
or so later....depending which side of Scotland you are.



Thanks, I should have said, I'm in Suffolk.

--
Regards, Charles

cthorpe at ukfsn dot org
"I really cannot tolerate intolerance"

".....What should be a good time to plant them out?....."

depends where you are.
West Wales farmers try to plant around St David's day.
Cornwall could be a week or so earlier, whilst Scotland could be a month or
so later....depending which side of Scotland you are.


--
David Hill
Abacus nurseries
www.abacus-nurseries.co.uk

On Tue, 03 Feb 2004 16:08:14 +0000, Charles Thorpe
wrote:

This is where Bob Flowerdew's "Car tyres" would be good.

I tried the tyre method a few years ago. (tyres from Quickfit!!)
The trouble was I ended up with a huge ants nest and not a lot of
potatoes. Maybe I didn't water enough.
So beware!

Pam in Bristol

"jane" wrote in message
...
On Tue, 3 Feb 2004 14:05:06 +0000 (UTC), "nambucca"
wrote:

~Many thanks all
~I will experiment
~not sure where i will find old car tyres but will scout around

Try QuikFit or any other local tyre place! They have to pay quite a
lot for safe disposal of the old tyres, so are usually quite happy to
have someone take them away. But do remember to wash them first - you
don't want all the old oil products in your spuds.

Be careful how many tyres you get from them. They will let you have as many
as you want, for reasons already mentioned, but they will *never* want them
back. Disposal then becomes your problem. You're not allowed to dump them,
you're not allowed to burn them, I think you're supposed to eat them or
something.

Steve

David Hill wrote:

".....What should be a good time to plant them out?....."

depends where you are.
West Wales farmers try to plant around St David's day.
Cornwall could be a week or so earlier, whilst Scotland could be a month
or so later....depending which side of Scotland you are.



Thanks, I should have said, I'm in Suffolk.

--
Regards, Charles

cthorpe at ukfsn dot org
"I really cannot tolerate intolerance"