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First Early potatoes
This year I am going to add a layer of Bone Meal to the bottom of my trench,
then a a layer of Manure then a layer of potting compost. Covering the tubers with potting compost & filling the trench with soil. I will sprinkle Slug pellets onto the ground. Is this a good way of getting a maximum yield? Best Wishes CJ |
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First Early potatoes
Good morning. First, I am no expert on potatoes. I have grown them and
been successful. I have never put in a lot of fertalizer so I cant say it will help. I do know that manure (depending upon what kind you use) will burn up some plants when the roots get to it. I also know that if the manure came from an animal that eats grain, the grain will sprout and come up in your garden. I also know that your potatoes will rot if they stay wet too long after a rain. My use of compost has taught me that the compost I used would not let the water go through and my plants stayed wet. One way to maximise your yield, is to make a potato cage by taking a roll of fence that is a meter high, and cut off a piece that is long enough to make it nearly a meter accross the top when stood up. Roll it into a circle and set it up. (I used old tires for mine, but they made the potatoes stay too wet and they rotted.) Lay one or two seed potatos on the ground and cover them with 15 cm of soil. As the plant grows out of the soil, add more soil that has been mixed with potting compost and your slug pellets. Keep doing this until the potato plant has reached the top th the fence. I have heard that a person can receive 10 k of potatoes per cage. It would be worth a try. Good luck. Dwayne "Colin A Jacobs" wrote in message ... This year I am going to add a layer of Bone Meal to the bottom of my trench, then a a layer of Manure then a layer of potting compost. Covering the tubers with potting compost & filling the trench with soil. I will sprinkle Slug pellets onto the ground. Is this a good way of getting a maximum yield? Best Wishes CJ |
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First Early potatoes
I usually put them in with well rotted manure and blood fish and bone
fertiliser and like the other chap says you must mix it up a bit to ensure it's not too strong with the fertiliser by the roots. I've tried the slug pellets but think it is more in the mind than any real value. I think the bone meal will be wasted at the bottom of the trench by the way, I put it around where the potatoes will be set and lightly fork it about. Just wonder if the potting compost will have lime in which gives potatoes scab. Still I expect it'll be ok Colin A Jacobs wrote: : This year I am going to add a layer of Bone Meal to the bottom of my : trench, then a a layer of Manure then a layer of potting compost. : Covering the tubers with potting compost & filling the trench with : soil. I will sprinkle Slug pellets onto the ground. Is this a good : way of getting a maximum yield? : : Best Wishes : : CJ |
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