[flitwickone]

Im planning on putting all the spuds in tomorrow as the forecast is good even though they will be 6 inches deep there will  or could be a minus 3 frost due my area sunday night can that  hurt them or is it only when they are above ground that the frost can damage them like last year grrrr

on the tomato front mine germinated in my spare bedroom two  nights ago and have shot up to about 1.5 2.0 inches i take it these have gone leggy and as it is my 1st attempt at them im not 100% sure they are gardeners delight and a tumbling tom variaety but im sure this is not right for growth ??

cheers

flitwick0ne

[Rangerkris]

Sounds like they have gone leggy, pot when you pot them on plant up to the leaves or most of the way it worked for me in the past. 

[Kleftiwallah]

Initial spud depth of 6", are you sure ? ? ? Cheers,   Tony.

[nipper31]

Initial spud depth of 6", are you sure ? ? ? Cheers,   Tony.

Why? Should it be more or less? 

[DD.]

6" should be OK, but I don't plant quite that far down.

Re the toms, 2" in 2 days is not good and to be honest it would be easier to re-sow than recover.

Give them plenty of light & don't forget the aluminium foil!

[JayG]

Yes it's the potato foliage which is much more likely to be damaged than the tubers; I think the most important thing is to make sure you don't run out of soil to earth them up if late frost threatens . That's why I'm going to follow MoS's lead and plant them about 4" deep in a fairly shallow trench rather than the same depth below the natural soil level (the excavated soil from digging the trench gives you more earthing-up material!)

DD has been forced to declare an interest in Aluminium mining companies ( ) because he keeps bravely plugging the aluminium foil reflector technique to help prevent leggy seedlings (which also lean towards the window!)

I have to declare that I couldn't be bothered to try it until this year but it does actually work!