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We get ours from a local farm. The last one was £3.50.
Where do you all get your straw from please?
Goodlife- digging up potatoes is not like any other digging- It's just pure unadulterated pleasure!!!! ;D ;D ;D
To complicate things a little - our plot is a horrible clay pit and two of the beds have dried out and cracked. I tried to dig into the surface and the fork bounced off!These were the two that we planned to have spuds in. I've read about a method where the seed potatoes are just placed on soil and then straw applied on top -would this work in these horrible beds? I could add an inch or so of garden compost on top of the clay to give them somewhere to root initially.If not, I'm not quite sure what to do with these beds - they're horrible! But, we want to use no dig methods.Steve
It should work, and you need to add loads of organic matter to soil like that, on an annual basis. I should go for it.
I've been looking for a long handled one. The chaps on our daughters site got them in a sale. They looked really easy to use.Pumpkinlover, think about no dig ;D.
If you want to eat the potatoes, then you are going to have to dig them out of the ground.
Quote from: realfood on March 13, 2011, 12:49:56If you want to eat the potatoes, then you are going to have to dig them out of the ground.erm, this thread is about no-dig spuds! ;)
There's nothing to beat a good old firkle ;) ;D.