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Chatting on the Plot / Re: Song linkups 2024
« Last post by mumofstig on Yesterday at 18:33 »Me Myself and I - De La Soul
Sorry if this has been touched on, but an article I read recently commented on Highgrove`s gardener suggesting similar to the `beer` method, alternatively using a mixture of small amounts of sugar and dried yeast with water in pots with the rim at ground level.
Anyone tried this?
I don't discriminate - everything makes me grumpy.
Dear fellow gardener,I suspect it might be intended to prevent blight, but I would not use it. It has been banned for a reason.
Someone gave me copper to use on my potatoes which I grow in bags. I bought all my varieties from a certified seller and they are doing marvellous, not a mark on them and the first flowers are forming. As they do so well why would I use copper? Is it necessary?
That's a great point re storage Aidy, this year however, mrs R and myself arent storing any as we're not eating potatoes (keto lifestyle).I agree with hasbeans that your supermarket potatoes have probably been treated with a growth inhibitor. I also agree with Yorkie that it's best to get certified seed potatoes, especially if you are growing on an allotment where disease can spread to other plots.
I'm just growing them for family to use as and when they're ready, I just don't understand why half grew and half didn't, could they have been treated with something to prevent them growing as normal?
So the question I was once asked by a farmer who is one of our patients.... why are you planting main's so early when you are going to store them?That's interesting Aidy. I have always followed the advice given by the late Joe Maiden, who used to have a radio show on Radio Leeds, and whose book Grow with Joe is an excellent one. He recommended planting all types of potatoes at the same time, 1st earlies, 2nd earlies, early maincrop, maincrop and salad. His rationale was that early potatoes take approximately 12 weeks, second earlies 16 weeks, early maincrop take until August and maincrop until September.
I was like you sowing in March.
I now follow our local farmers. Mains go in first weekend of May, my earlys 2nd weekend of April.
Done this about 4 years now and always get very good crops, others on site are moaning coz they have lost a good few due to more than average raInfall. They will not learn!