[craggy]

Plant on Paddy's day but have the fleece ready for any late frosts

thats spuds for ya.but worth it when in july they taste like no tatty you can buy

[Rangerkris]

I started digging over my new plot on Saturday and must have found the old potato bed as there was quite a few in the ground still (i know not to plant spuds there for a few years) and some of the spuds there had shoots on them so things are coming along i guess.  They was no deeper than a fork and a half deep and they were healthy looking spuds.  i think ours were in this time last year cant remember as my note keeping starts from March and there not on there.

[PAULW]

I realise my methods wouldn't work for you poor beggers in the midlands where you still have snow on the ground and your growing season is a month behind mine anway, but it works for me and last year I was digging 5lb of spuds per root from my first early's so I cant be doing much wrong just working with the conditions and weather we get down here in tropical Dorset.

[Yorkie]

Well I shall be sticking with my nice reliable date - Good Friday 

[aelf]

If it works for you paulw, then it works for you. But us who are 'ooop north' have to wait for the ground to warm up and the frost risk to reduce before we plant. I also don't have access to tons of straw to protect my plants so I'll start planting around mid March and do a row a week til the end of April. Works for me!  

[DD.]

Well I shall be sticking with my nice reliable date - Good Friday 

You can't beat sticking rigidly to a date!

[PAULW]

Well I shall be sticking with my nice reliable date - Good Friday 

You can't beat sticking rigidly to a date!

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Yes thats as rigid as a wet leek

[DD.]

Yorkie knows that I know as it's a point I often make. Iit was a very tongue in cheek comment.

[DavidT]

Paul, the one thing you haven`t taken into account, is, this is the coldest winter in 30 years. Even in " tropical " Dorset.

[Yorkie]

Well I shall be sticking with my nice reliable date - Good Friday 

You can't beat sticking rigidly to a date!

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Yes thats as rigid as a wet leek

Oh for heaven's sake Paul, this need not turn into a competitive thread.  As DD. has pointed out, there was a sense of tongue in cheek in my comment.

[PAULW]

Paul, the one thing you haven`t taken into account, is, this is the coldest winter in 30 years. Even in " tropical " Dorset.

It was a long cold winter and spring last year

[DavidT]

NOT as cold, or as long as this.

[PAULW]

Any way winter nearly over spring on its way Blackbird singing crocus in flower.

[DD.]

2008 had a cold snap very late and a lot of folk lost a lot of things.

Me included.

[craggy]

Any way winter nearly over spring on its way Blackbird singing crocus in flower.

i would have thought the cuckoo would be calling in the tropics.