Potato Planting - Newspaper+Dung??

[Pete the Plot]

Think I saw/read/heard somewhere about planting potatoes where you put your manure at bottom of trench/drill, put crumpled newspaper on top of dung and then potato on top of paper, then cover. ???

Was I dreaming ::)

[waggi]

dont no but will someone please let us no as i have got to get the best from my new plot this year

waggi

[onionhead]

Think I saw/read/heard somewhere about planting potatoes where you put your manure at bottom of trench/drill, put crumpled newspaper on top of dung and then potato on top of paper, then cover. ???

Was I dreaming ::)

Yeah, I've heard that too and I'm trying it myself for the first time this season. Others recommend a mix of grass cuttings and newspaper as a 'nest' for your spuds to sit on.

[Doris_Pinks]

I think, on that BBC allotment programme, one chap put manure, then wet newspaper, then grass cuttings, then potatoes, or did I imagine that?? (could have been grass cuttings, then newspaper then manure then tatties!!!)  DP

[Robert_Brenchley]

Probably the newspaper over the grass, if he used a lot of it; it might make the spuds rot if they were in actual contact. I don't really remember though. I've long since given up putting anything underneath anything, as so often I dug it up again almost unchanged. These days I put it on top, as a mulch, and the worms take it down.

[RobinOfTheHood]

On this note, would shredded office paper be any use for spuds? And if so, over or under?
I have an almost unlimited supply of it here at work.

If not, is there anything else it can be used for?

(I'm getting this 'something for nothing' lark down to a tee now)   ;D ;D

[MrsKP]

i use shredded office waste as the brown layer in the compost bin.  not sure about the ink on the paper, but can't be anyworse than using newspaper can it ?