planting spuds

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planting spuds
« on: February 09, 2010, 18:34 »
Last year was my first  growing my own veg and I used Hessayon as my reference. As well as this forum.
I spaced the planting of my spuds out, a few weeks between 1st earlies- 2nd earlies and my `Main crop . My confusion comes when some of the old sages on the allotment said " oh no, wack em all in at the same time. My gut feeling is to follow Hessayon as I had a pretty good crop. Thoughts welcome.
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Re: planting spuds
« Reply #1 on: February 09, 2010, 18:39 »
There have been quite a lot of threads covering this recently.

Here's one example:

http://chat.allotment-garden.org/index.php?topic=50782.0
Did it really tell you to do THAT on the packet?

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Re: planting spuds
« Reply #2 on: February 19, 2010, 09:46 »
I plant all mine at one ... but this year I'm going to plant the First Earlies at 2 week intervals for a month.  We like them really small ... and planting them all-at-once meant that the last lot we harvested were already larger than we like.

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Re: planting spuds
« Reply #3 on: February 19, 2010, 10:14 »
All mine go in once paddy has left the building and billy is on his way in. I don't stagger mine and to be honest there is no reason for it, just like to get the spud bed planted up.
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Re: planting spuds
« Reply #4 on: February 19, 2010, 10:16 »
Mine would go in all at once,  but I can't manage 300 in one day. I just start and then keep going until they're all in.

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Re: planting spuds
« Reply #5 on: February 19, 2010, 12:18 »
I'd get them all in when conditions r right. Saves time for future chores.
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