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Growing => Grow Your Own => Topic started by: fletcherbaker on January 17, 2012, 19:17

Title: spud spacing
Post by: fletcherbaker on January 17, 2012, 19:17

hi all i have 3 raised beds in my garden all around 8ft by 3ft how many first earlies would i be able to plant and what spacing would be recommended cheers all

Title: Re: spud spacing
Post by: mumofstig on January 17, 2012, 19:30

John's potato planting guide is here, showing distances between seed and rows
http://www.allotment-garden.org/vegetable/potato/potato-growing-guide.php

Title: Re: spud spacing
Post by: bazh on January 17, 2012, 20:29

2 rows of 8 spuds in each bed but it'll be tight, it may be easier to grow through black polythene rather than earth up.

Title: Re: spud spacing
Post by: Salmo on January 17, 2012, 21:19

Probably best to grow the rows short ways on rather than try to get 2 x 8 fy rows in.
i.e. 4 x 3ft rows either 3 or 4 seed potatoes per row.

You could of course do as many farmers do and plant 2 rows 10 inches apart along the 8 ft length and earth them up as one 3 ft wide mound.