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Question for you all. I planted tatties in builders buckets and they are just showing. I fancied earthing up but how do I make my buckets taller withou spending lots on equipment. If not poss then I won't earth up. Just wondered if it would increase my crop. Any views or ideas??
Could you sit an old tyre on the top safely? Scrapyards find it difficult to get rid of tyres (normally charge you £4 per tyre, or did last time OH scrapped a car), so if you ask nicely and show a bit of cleavage, you might get a couple of old, bald tyres for free.
That made me smile!!! Would just turn up in my jodhpurs and riding boots, that may do the trick!! You know I have no idea how big tyres or the inside but are, so no clue if would sit on top.
Does earthing up make for bigger crops or just shield from the frost. Mine are in the conservatory and will then go in my plastic greenhouse, so hopefully won't get frost damaged!
Red Dahlia, get a plastic bag put some soil in the bottom and drop your bucket in the bag. The potato's grow on the Haum which is the bit that grows out of the seed potato, you earth up to stop light getting to the new potato's and turning them green, never eat green potato's as they contain Ptomaine a deadly poison. You can now earth up your potato's until just some top green leaf is showing, they will shoot up so earth up until flowers show then let them ripen remembering to water well once bagged up, a couple of slits in the base of the plastic bag will let the excess water out. Watering, keep some of your large pop bottles, before you go away water the plants well, fill the pop bottle with water then either drill a hole in the screw cap and upend it in the plant pot or put a material wick into the bottle with the screw cap off and upend it in the pot, the water will seep out when the compost dries and lets air into the water, if the soil is wet the air cannot seep into the bottle releasing the water. It works on hanging baskets too.
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Question for you all. I planted tatties in builders buckets and they are just showing. I fancied earthing up but how do I make my buckets taller withou spending lots on equipment. If not poss then I won't earth up. Just wondered if it would increase my crop. Any views or ideas??
Could you sit an old tyre on the top safely? Scrapyards find it difficult to get rid of tyres (normally charge you £4 per tyre, or did last time OH scrapped a car), so if you ask nicely and show a bit of cleavage, you might get a couple of old, bald tyres for free.
Does earthing up make for bigger crops or just shield from the frost. Mine are in the conservatory and will then go in my plastic greenhouse, so hopefully won't get frost damaged!
Red Dahlia, get a plastic bag put some soil in the bottom and drop your bucket in the bag. The potato's grow on the Haum which is the bit that grows out of the seed potato, you earth up to stop light getting to the new potato's and turning them green, never eat green potato's as they contain Ptomaine a deadly poison.
You can now earth up your potato's until just some top green leaf is showing, they will shoot up so earth up until flowers show then let them ripen remembering to water well once bagged up, a couple of slits in the base of the plastic bag will let the excess water out.
Watering, keep some of your large pop bottles, before you go away water the plants well, fill the pop bottle with water then either drill a hole in the screw cap and upend it in the plant pot or put a material wick into the bottle with the screw cap off and upend it in the pot, the water will seep out when the compost dries and lets air into the water, if the soil is wet the air cannot seep into the bottle releasing the water.
It works on hanging baskets too.
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RD, if you turn up in Jodphurs, remember to take your crop with you. They won't dare say no then!!