i am growing maris bard under Cloches and have a soil Thermometer the soil is 2.5 at the momement am i right that potatoes start growing at 7.2C 45f in old money. i have 3 bags in greenhouse warming up (no heat in greenhouse) just Checking if i was right jim
I wonder if you can find the time to answer this question please?
This year I picked the very first of my new potatoes very early, just to get a taste. I then did something my father taught me many years ago. I replanted the potato, roots.
I left them for another month, whilst continuing to use other potatoes as they became ready. When I re-lifted the replants I had a very respectable second crop of potatoes.
AAAAH, what a lovely feeling to be surrounded by fellow spud lovers! I'm afraid teh garden centre near me does not do online shopping, but there are lots of good websites that do. I reckon that wireworms get noticeably better after 2 yrs of serious growing and cultivating at every opportunity, and pretty well OK after three is you are talking the classic problem you get when you have turned a bit of grassland into a veg plot! In the meantime I'd say concentrate on growing earlies as these are generally lifted before the pests really get a hold.
Sweet potatoes, yes! On a half decent year they crop OK and are great fun. In a hot summer the autumn-lifted crop can be great.
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i have 3 bags in greenhouse warming up (no heat in greenhouse)
just Checking if i was right
jim
Thanks.
This year I picked the very first of my new potatoes very early, just to get a taste. I then did something my father taught me many years ago. I replanted the potato, roots.
I left them for another month, whilst continuing to use other potatoes as they became ready. When I re-lifted the replants I had a very respectable second crop of potatoes.
I just wondered if anyone else does this?
Thank you
I'm afraid teh garden centre near me does not do online shopping, but there are lots of good websites that do.
I reckon that wireworms get noticeably better after 2 yrs of serious growing and cultivating at every opportunity, and pretty well OK after three is you are talking the classic problem you get when you have turned a bit of grassland into a veg plot! In the meantime I'd say concentrate on growing earlies as these are generally lifted before the pests really get a hold.
Sweet potatoes, yes! On a half decent year they crop OK and are great fun. In a hot summer the autumn-lifted crop can be great.