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Produce => Edible Plants => Topic started by: lottie lou on February 18, 2011, 23:01:34

Title: Doh
Post by: lottie lou on February 18, 2011, 23:01:34

Just found out that I have been planting all my spuds upside down all these years.

Title: Re: Doh
Post by: triffid on February 18, 2011, 23:39:59

Did the spuds mind?  :)

Title: Re: Doh
Post by: macmac on February 19, 2011, 00:09:44

is there really upside down for spuds  ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ???

Title: Re: Doh
Post by: Pescador on February 19, 2011, 07:40:32

Must have been easier to harvest, with all the tubers at the top!

Title: Re: Doh
Post by: Debs on February 19, 2011, 09:15:09

Don't think it would make any difference

Wouldn't he growth 'head upwards' (scientific term ;D)  as with all  things??

Debs

Title: Re: Doh
Post by: sunloving on February 19, 2011, 09:21:39

Sounds like youve got some very patronising advice there.  ::)
Eyes grow all around the tuber so you decide which way is up when you chit it. even then like everyone said eyes at the bottom will soon grow up to the light.

was is one of those nay sayers?
oh, no no no no no you dont want to do it like that.
Its good to have them around so that you can beat them at the show with all the things youve done "wrong"
x sunloving

Title: Re: Doh
Post by: Robert_Brenchley on February 19, 2011, 17:00:13

It makes no difference which way round you plant them.

Title: Re: Doh
Post by: cornykev on February 20, 2011, 10:59:13

Ditto Robert.   :) :) :)

Title: Re: Doh
Post by: Stevens706 on February 21, 2011, 13:06:06

Did you watch the Elizabethan Farm programme, they were growing spuds, Ruth was just dropping in the seed potatoes from height, no messing about, and they had a decent crop.