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 ::)
dont no but will someone please let us no as i have got to get the best from my new plot this year
waggi
Quote from: Pete the Plot on April 02, 2006, 20:44:30
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.
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
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.
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
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 ?