Monday, 28 April 2008
potatoes
My first potatoes are in "kestrel" which are a coloured variety and are a very popular choice among the show masters.
I plant all my show potatoes in 17ltr polypots using "Westlands Irish moss peat" that has been passed through a shredder. Every 300lts i add 3 pounds of calcified seaweed and 3 pounds of Vitax Q4 and sometimes some slug pellets but i forgot on this occasion. A 100ltr bag of peat is enough to fill 5 bags, quite an expense.
The potatoes as you can see in the picture are planted in a trench that i dust in "Fish, Blood and Bone".The roots from the potato that is planted near the bottom of the bag will grow out of the holes into the soil below and the potatoes will stay in the bag, keeping them clean in the peat.
The other varieties i will be planting are:
Kestrel (about 11 more) (coloured)
Winston (White)
Cara (coloured)
Nadine (White)
+Some others i cant remember but probably wont make it in the bag due to cost.
I plant all my show potatoes in 17ltr polypots using "Westlands Irish moss peat" that has been passed through a shredder. Every 300lts i add 3 pounds of calcified seaweed and 3 pounds of Vitax Q4 and sometimes some slug pellets but i forgot on this occasion. A 100ltr bag of peat is enough to fill 5 bags, quite an expense.
The potatoes as you can see in the picture are planted in a trench that i dust in "Fish, Blood and Bone".The roots from the potato that is planted near the bottom of the bag will grow out of the holes into the soil below and the potatoes will stay in the bag, keeping them clean in the peat.
The other varieties i will be planting are:
Kestrel (about 11 more) (coloured)
Winston (White)
Cara (coloured)
Nadine (White)
+Some others i cant remember but probably wont make it in the bag due to cost.
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