Potato Feed

Having now planted out my potatoes is there a good recommended feed that I can give them during the growing season? I知 guessing what I can give to potatoes I can also give to brassicas?

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I only acquired the allotment 3 weeks ago. After a lot of weeding and digging I planted my potatoes last week. To date the ground hasn稚 been manured or fed.

Looks like chicken manure pellets, dried blood or bone meal. Can I add this to the top of the soil now and water it in, or wait until the greenery starts to show?

OK. I'm off to buy a fish, blood and bone feed so that I can start watering the soil this evening.

If you work the fertiliser into the soil a bit you should not need to water it in. Remember that we are trying to save water.

The boffins say that fertilizer is most efficient for potatoes if it is a couple of inches underneath the seed. i.e. open up your furrow and work it into the bottom.

One approach is t open your furrow and sprinkle the fertilizer over the sides. As the soil is pulled in the fertilizer will be concentrated around the seed but not in close contact with it.