excuse me while i do me dung.

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Potatoes and pooh here too, well not this year yet.  I'll probably bung it on about five minutes before the spuds go in

Without heaps of manure in the spud area, we wouldn't get our usual mega harvest of spuds. They love it. The one thing you must be careful of with spuds is to rotate the growing area every year. We do a 3 yr rotation which seems to work for us. 4 is the recommended. Manure also gives our spuds their wonderful flavour. People who eat ours comment on the wonderful 'potato taste'  

Very true. Mine are on a three-year rotation too.  I grow too many to stretch them to a four-year break. But I find, with the large quantities of garden compost and manure I use, that pests and diseases are not a  problem.

Gosh it must get tiring turning potatoes for three years!  

Many years ago, my next door neighbours Grandson and I decided to grow some spuds in the garden next to the horse stables. Not knowing a thing about spud growing, somebody said to us 'all you need is plenty of horse muck and water'. That is what we did, never let them dry out, plenty of watering and banked up with fresh horse muck from the stables every week, they were grown in virtually 100% pure fresh horse muck.
When we dug them up, there were loads of them and some of the biggest spuds I have ever seen. I don't know what variety they were, just some we got from the local shop, never even chitted them and if I remember rightly no sign of scab on them either.

  Robbo.