Thanks Thanks:  0
Needs Pictures Needs Pictures:  0
Picture(s) thanks Picture(s) thanks:  0
Results 1 to 12 of 12
  1. #1
    Join Date
    Sep 2007
    Location
    Bottom of the leg
    Age
    82
    Posts
    828

    Default Potatoes and the no dig method

    For the first time ever I've grown potatoes using the no dig method

    First I layered newspaper onto the ground.
    Then spread some cow manure and hay to a depth of about 3 inches
    Then placed seed potatoes 15 inches apart In rows 15 inches apart.
    Then another 3 inches of pea straw.
    When the growth came through this I put another 6 inches of pea straw on top.
    I checked today as two had flowered and died off.
    I got 2.3 kilo. more than happy with this.

    Still got lots flowering so looking at a good crop
    Attached Images Attached Images
    Cheers Fred



    The difference between light and hard is that you can sleep with the light on.
    http://www.redbubble.com/people/fredsmi ... t_creative"

    Updated 26 April 2010
    http://sites.google.com/site/pomfred/

  2. # ADS
    Google Adsense Advertisement
    Join Date
    Always
    Location
    Advertising world
    Age
    2010
    Posts
    Many





     
  3. #2
    Join Date
    Sep 2010
    Location
    Port Sorell, Tasmania
    Posts
    592

    Default

    We tried it a few years back and all went well until harvest. Wife and I were sitting about a metre apart on the straw lifting the straw back and picking potatoes when a large snake slithered out of the straw between us.
    You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have. ~Oscar Wilde

  4. #3
    Join Date
    Dec 2010
    Location
    Mornington Peninsula
    Posts
    2,741

    Default

    Snakes!!

  5. #4
    Join Date
    Jan 2008
    Location
    Nth Est Victoria, Australia
    Posts
    605

    Default

    Are they Dutch Cream ? Keep up the good work.

  6. #5
    Join Date
    Nov 2011
    Location
    Sutherland Shire, Sydney
    Age
    71
    Posts
    1,301

    Default

    That would have cured me from gardening for the rest of my life!

    Snake and potato pie?

    Alan...

  7. #6
    Join Date
    Jan 2008
    Location
    Nth Est Victoria, Australia
    Posts
    605

    Default

    Snakes, love em. Not long ago I cut a bush tiger out our fruit netting, took it up to the dam and let it go so it could rehydrate itself in it's own good time.
    Don't have much time for sookie lah lahs who think (" I use that term loosely") that a good snake is a dead snake.

  8. #7
    Join Date
    Jan 2013
    Location
    Tasmaniac
    Posts
    1,470

    Default

    Quote Originally Posted by HUON View Post
    Are they Dutch Cream ? Keep up the good work.


    Look more like Rex Hunt's to me....they are the common tater

  9. #8
    Join Date
    Aug 2007
    Location
    St Georges Basin
    Posts
    1,015

    Default

    You can use the same systen with car tyres. Keep adding tyres and mulch as the plant grows. Big yield /small footprint.

  10. #9
    Join Date
    Sep 2007
    Location
    Bottom of the leg
    Age
    82
    Posts
    828

    Default

    Quote Originally Posted by HUON View Post
    Are they Dutch Cream ? Keep up the good work.
    I kept the labels from the mesh bags and put them somewhere safe now cant find them. DUH

    They do have a creamy colour to them.
    Cheers Fred



    The difference between light and hard is that you can sleep with the light on.
    http://www.redbubble.com/people/fredsmi ... t_creative"

    Updated 26 April 2010
    http://sites.google.com/site/pomfred/

  11. #10
    Join Date
    Nov 2006
    Location
    Rockhampton
    Age
    62
    Posts
    2,236

    Default

    Quote Originally Posted by burraboy View Post
    You can use the same systen with car tyres. Keep adding tyres and mulch as the plant grows. Big yield /small footprint.
    Tyres supposedly have issues with nasties leaching out of the rubber, the idea is good but I'd avoid. Pete

  12. #11
    Join Date
    May 2009
    Location
    Somerset, UK
    Posts
    445

    Default

    Getting to the age where I do not relish getting the big fork out of the shed I have gone over to 'no dig'.
    Not spuds as I don't really have the room but so far peas & green beans seem to be coming up OK.

    Slightly off opic (forgive me) but last year the local gardening club had a competition - given one spud to grow in a container that could be taken to the village hall.
    I planted up two tubs, one for me & one for SWMBO, adding muck as he shoots appeared till the tubs where full.
    Before the day of the judging I emptied my tub of spuds (decent crop) and replaced them with a 2kg poly bag of washed spuds from the s/market, filled the tub back up with soil, poked in the old stems plus a few weed seedlings so both tubs appeared the same.
    Good laugh with cries of 'fraud' & 'cheat' from the other members....
    potatoes.jpg


    Mark


    Paul Hogan re snakes 'they make good eating but they give me gas'
    What you say & what people hear are not always the same thing.
    http://www.remark.me.uk/

  13. #12
    Join Date
    Dec 2011
    Location
    SC, USA
    Posts
    598

    Default

    Here's my potato story....

    We planted a small bed of sweet potatoes. They have a long growing season... All went well andthey were harvested. We got about 20 lbs worth....

    The very next day - I go to the grocery store and there is the new harvest of sweet potatoes ready for purchase... $0.10/lb.... My efforts saved me a kingly ransom of $2.00 less the cost of the sets - which was about $4.00....

    A month earlier the were about $1.00/lb.... But at harvest time - the prices drop considerably...

Similar Threads

  1. Potatoes
    By rwbuild in forum WOODIES JOKES
    Replies: 11
    Last Post: 28th February 2015, 09:27 AM
  2. Replies: 5
    Last Post: 28th December 2012, 04:35 AM
  3. New use for potatoes
    By fenderbelly in forum WOODIES JOKES
    Replies: 1
    Last Post: 3rd December 2008, 10:45 AM
  4. Planting Potatoes
    By Geoff Dean in forum LANDSCAPING, GARDENING, OUTDOORS
    Replies: 9
    Last Post: 15th October 2007, 09:39 AM
  5. Potatoes
    By Geoff Dean in forum WOODIES JOKES
    Replies: 0
    Last Post: 8th April 2004, 11:02 AM

Posting Permissions

  • You may not post new threads
  • You may not post replies
  • You may not post attachments
  • You may not edit your posts
  •