[markygreenfingers]

Hi Ziggy

Thanks for the warning mate, we are in the west midlands and the seaside is a distant dream from here  so hopefully we should be alright.

Take care

markygreenfingers

[markygreenfingers]

Hi Jazzbyrd

Don't worry about being nosey, if you don't ask you don't get

my local council let you have up tp 3 x 330 litre compost bins per year at £10 each to encourage recycling, so we got 2 bins at the end of last year, only trouble is we have hardly filled one half way.

so with the empty compost bin I cut it in have half, filled with compost and planted 2 types of potatoes in them. When it comes time to harvest just simply lift the the bin up as there are no bottoms and pick the potatoes, no digging  

So give your local council a ring and see if they run the same scheme as I have seen the same compost bins in B&Q and they are £50 each for the same compost bins.

Take care

markygreenfingers

[jazzbyrd]

Great idea Mark !! Might try that myself. I guess you would have to get rid of the compost for your new batch of potatoes for the following year.
Or would you grow something else in the same compost? I am new to all this so I ask loads of questions
Jazzbyrd

[markygreenfingers]

Hi Jazzbyrd

I am only a newbie myself, this is my first year of growing veg but I do know that potatoes brake down and clean the soil, which makes it in to very good soil, so when I have harvested the potatoes I will spread it over my beds and rake it in ready for planting cauliflower and broccoli over the winter which will be ready to harvest next spring.

Then next year I will use some of the soil from that bed and top up with compost ready to plant my potatoes.

I hope this is some help to you and you will have to let me know how you are getting on with what you have planted.

so far and I cant believe it I have strawberries, 2 types of tomatoes, mint, chives, onions, spring onions, cucumber, 2 types of potatoes, broccoli, cauliflower, peas and carrots and they are all growing, must be beginners luck

take care

markygreenfingers