[mickeyboy]

Ouch a year!! Ive hurt my back for a few weeks but cant imagine the pain of a year  Hope you are feeling much much better

Good to hear the pots worked, now, what were they? 

Yep its been a long and agonising year, but im back with a vengance. I have just constructed 4, 1 meter tall raised beds to combat the back!!
The pots were those peat type paper ones, u grow on the window sill and then just plant them straight in the ground where they break down and feed the plant.

[Rampant_Weasel]

i put all my spuds in at teh same time ( about 2 weeks ago) and earth up at the same time.some have just come up so ill be earthing up a bit more this week.i work on the theory to get as much growing is as poss b4 blight strikes and u have to chop the haulm off.
leek seeds have only just gone into a large pot , i usually planted them out into the space created by the lifted first earlies.

[John]

Sounds good mickeyboy - all the show growers use deep raised beds, most would cringe at planting in the soil 

Seriously, you can get marvellous results that way.

[mickeyboy]

Brilliant news thanks john, i will hopefully have the first one filled today and seeded tomorow. I will let you know what pros and cons i find to gardening this way.
take care
mickeyboy