No I am not talking about football teams getting promoted. Although I do follow Middlesbrough this season after a certain ex MU player became their manager.
I am writing about the seed potatoes growing in the compost filled potato bags we planted recently.
It's great to see that Summer is on the way and we will be eating our new potatoes before the outside ones are ready to dig.
We will be eating before we say : "It's too hot for potatoes" and "Is it hot or is it me?"
I covered up the potatoes shoots with the last of my Lidl John Innes compost. I go through compost like nobody's business. I went for some more today and they had sold out.
Oh for my fym to decompose and I will have tons of free compost.
Are your potatoes 🥔 shoots emerging yet?
I haven't grown tatties for a few years...not enough garden space
ReplyDeleteNo beeps and tatties GZ? The potato growing bags are great for people with little space or in a greenhouse or polytunnel. I grew them once in an upstairs flat in a big plant pot. There was nothing wrong with them. You don't need to have a garden or allotment to grow your own vegetables.
ReplyDeleteThey take up so much room, even in bags!!
DeleteI only have a back garden..and that has all the sheds workshops , greenhouse and wee (decrepit) polytunnel in it too!!
Can you not rent some land or allotment GZ?
DeleteI don't think ours are ready to go out yet. They are still in the shed chitting, but the grow bags are all ready and waiting out by the wood pile.
ReplyDeleteOur 'outside' new potatoes were planted around St Patrick's Day JayCee. Things are starting to warm up and the seeds are germinating every day. I love Spring and early Summer time.
ReplyDeleteSome people are addicted to cocaine or alcohol or even shoes but it seems that you are addicted to compost! There must be rehab centres where compost addicts can be weaned off the drug that has taken so many - including Percy Thrower who in a bad week could get through fifty bags of compost. He was completely hooked. Poor old chap!
ReplyDeleteIt's great to have a hobby nay obsession YP. I once saw the great Percy Thrower at Southport Flower Show. What an inspiration!
DeleteMy wrongly planted potato shoot had dried up with the leaves all droopy and browned after yesterday's warm weather and today is even warmer. I had watered two days ago, but this morning the pot was dry as a bone, so I watered again, but don't think there will be any potatoes for me. Next year I will have seed potatoes and plant them properly.
ReplyDeleteDon't give up River. It's worth setting seed potatoes in September to get new potatoes at Christmas. I have done this a few times.
ReplyDeleteIn the fight for space in our garden the spuds lost out. That bed has onions for England, silver beet. beetroot and leeks (and we have no space for the shallots and garlic....) and the whole place is a complete bog anyway so the spuds would probably have rotted. F grows everything in dirt - she says she is too lazy to be watering bags and pots every day in summer.
ReplyDeleteWatering Crystal's are excellent for hanging baskets and containers Tigger. Hopefully our new potatoes will be ready before any hot spells. I love new potatoes. Peeling them with my finger nail and spreading butter on them. Delicious!
ReplyDeleteIt is always great to see the first shoots appearing. Imagine the joy of this when one is a farmer and depending on it for ones livelihood. That joy (and relief) feeling will never leave me.
ReplyDeleteIt is great to see the first shoots appearing Rachel. It must be nerve wrecking growing a crop and waiting for the harvest and getting a good price when you sell them. Haymaking always gave me much stress. Watching the weather forecast and praying it does not rain. Then hoping the bales are not to green and going to set alight spontaneously. Not forgetting livestock and their trials and tribulations. Thanks Rachel.
ReplyDeleteUgh. A tree fell on our garden. We're going to try planting exclusively in bags this year. Our potatoes have been awfully disappointing.
ReplyDeleteDrat. Trees can be a nuisance in a garden Debby. Good luck with your potatoes in bags.
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