First Early Spuds(And Asparagus)

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gardening-girl

Joined: 25 Feb 2009
Posts: 6024
Location: Somerset.

Posted: Sat Apr 12, 14 6:34 pm Post subject: First Early Spuds(And Asparagus)
Oh yum,some lovely little spuds from the poly-tunnel. Bit of mint,lots of butter. First cut of Asparagus. Lovely

Faithmead

Joined: 07 Mar 2008
Posts: 1228
Location: Carmarthenshire/Pembrokeshire border

Posted: Sat Apr 12, 14 8:46 pm Post subject:
Ooooo lucky you. What type of pots should we be planting right now? We always get wire worm here and so we're going to try some of those 'sacks'. Any tips?

Mistress Rose

Joined: 21 Jul 2011
Posts: 15600

Posted: Sun Apr 13, 14 5:12 am Post subject:
We had asparagus last night, but from the farm shop. It just popped up last week. Really nice on buttered toast.

gardening-girl

Joined: 25 Feb 2009
Posts: 6024
Location: Somerset.

Posted: Sun Apr 13, 14 7:21 pm Post subject:
We put the seed spuds in end of Jan. Large black pots with some muck in the bottom,just keep topping up. This year we grew Swift and Cherie.

gregotyn

Joined: 24 Jun 2010
Posts: 2201
Location: Llanfyllin area

Posted: Tue Apr 15, 14 1:22 pm Post subject:
You can get large amounts of main crop potatoes growing then in the same way as you have gardening-girl. You can use old tyres or sacks and just keep adding tyres or rolling up the sack as they grow, and plenty of time to do this- we are still getting frosts up here so I would not be starting, but in a poly tunnel-anytime is right!

evie2

Joined: 29 May 2010
Posts: 2156
Location: Here

Posted: Tue Apr 15, 14 3:06 pm Post subject:
We've grown potatoes in sacks, bags for life, old recycling buckets and tyres, we've never been disappointed with the results. I'd say just make sure they don't get too dry.

nats

Joined: 12 Jun 2007
Posts: 2374
Location: Swindon but not a Swindonian

Posted: Tue Apr 15, 14 6:19 pm Post subject:
Oh I love Asparagus but although back off the market for various reasons we still hope to sell and move eventually..... I take it growbags/pots just is a no go?????

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