I find dig a trench plant spuds, cover with garden compost to retain moisture then earth up with the soil from the trench , this will retain moisture and prevent scab
I also read that you shouldn't put potatoes in to a freshly manured plot. That book also recommended allowing kitchen waste to compost indoors for a while before placing it in your outdoors compost bin. BAD IDEA - unless you want a houseful of fruit flies. That book also recommended you place a wire mesh in your compost bin sections for your compost to sit on so the air can circulate underneath it. ANOTHER BAD IDEA - the compost just keeps on breaking up and falling through the mesh eventually giving no under-base air circulation and then you have the devil's own job getting your fork or spade sliding along that mesh base to get the last of your compost out. I better not say what the book was in case I get hounded by the publisher's lawyers. I think you and I should get better gardening reference books for our vegy-growing. Suggestions on a postcard please !?!
Has Monty Don seen the temperature readings or the weather forecasts recently, especially for North Yorkshire where I live? Some comment on the reaction of potatoes to cold wet ground in early spring would have been appropriate!!
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That book also recommended allowing kitchen waste to compost indoors for a while before placing it in your outdoors compost bin. BAD IDEA - unless you want a houseful of fruit flies.
That book also recommended you place a wire mesh in your compost bin sections for your compost to sit on so the air can circulate underneath it. ANOTHER BAD IDEA - the compost just keeps on breaking up and falling through the mesh eventually giving no under-base air circulation and then you have the devil's own job getting your fork or spade sliding along that mesh base to get the last of your compost out.
I better not say what the book was in case I get hounded by the publisher's lawyers.
I think you and I should get better gardening reference books for our vegy-growing. Suggestions on a postcard please !?!