This year we grew two rows(i think we planted 8 desiree seed potatoes in each row) of Desiree Potatoes in one of our 10x4' raised beds and it was very successful.
We are not huge potato eaters so I was thinking of growing different types of potatoes in one bed at each planting station. This way we would get to try many varieties and we wouldn't get them all at same time. So instead of 16 Desiree I would perhaps plant a mix of earlies, second earlies and main crop in one bed.
Would this be a problem.
I hope this makes sense.
Duke
I have planted different varieties in the same raised bed.
No Problem. ;D
I find raised beds O.K. for most veg.. I like your idea of trying different varieties. How would you remember which is which?
I jot stuff down in an Allotment diary,got caught out this year as forgot to make a note of the name of one variety.
The foliage is different.
Quote from: tomatoada on November 19, 2009, 10:31:37
I find raised beds O.K. for most veg.. I like your idea of trying different varieties. How would you remember which is which?
LABELS!!!!!!
if you going to use raised bed to plant potatoes you should follow the square foot method to get a larger harvest.
this can be found in Organic gardening magazine Feb 1996 p 30
a more advanced version of the Idea can found here.
http://ft2garden.powweb.com/sinfonian/?page_id=12
Thanks everyone for your advice!! I will give it a go next year.
Duke :)
We grow all sort of veg in a round raised bed, but the potatoes in a recycled plastic big potato pod- so 2 things:
1. you can see the pod getting bigger- so -I really enjoyed it
2. at the End we all the family opened the pod and collect all the potatoes with the children- they were actually after worms and other insects.
I grow few variates - some seems to do better than others.
the only thing is that we had to pick them all together so this spring- hoping to have few of them recycled plastic potato pod forever for different seasons.
Any suggestions for better variates for these- I want big potatoes so that the growth is visible.
Go OCD and plant them alphabetically... mke sure your alpahabetical list of varieties is different enough frmo the one either side of it and then alkl you have to do is memorise the list.....
simples....
if you like memorising lists and like putting things in alphabetical order......
which I do ::)
chrisc
Quote from: Ofer on December 30, 2009, 15:14:05
Any suggestions for better variates for these- I want big potatoes so that the growth is visible.
for just size try 'cara' or 'king edward'
thanks,
will do
Put your earlies on the side that gets the most sun so that you can get them harvested quickly and then the maincrops will get all the sun once they have been lifted. I grow mine in polypots with the names on the bags but you could just draw a diagram of which spuds are which.
Try and keep them in their groups ie first earlies, second earlies and maincrops.
All things being equal Ofer... the older the variety the more foliage you get with each plant... think PFA can get up to 7' of plant above the ground... ;D
Thanks saddad and Tattieman
Quote from: chriscross1966 on December 30, 2009, 16:46:06
Go OCD and plant them alphabetically... mke sure your alpahabetical list of varieties is different enough frmo the one either side of it and then alkl you have to do is memorise the list.....
chrisc
A great idea chriscross. Last Spring I was planting many different varieties of tomatoes giving no thought to placement other than height and trying each in a different micro-climate to see how they'd perform. When it was all done I thought how stupid of me not to put them in a logical order that I could remember without referring to little labels. Alphabetized Next Spring!
Quote from: saddad on December 30, 2009, 20:26:03
All things being equal Ofer... the older the variety the more foliage you get with each plant... think PFA can get up to 7' of plant above the ground... ;D
If you are growing potatoes in pots/pods/barrels etc. do you tie the foliage up so that it doesn't get damaged on the ground Saddad. Mine kept flopping over last year eventually and then got whipped about with the wind - most of them broke eventually. Not a great harvest either (Golden Wonders)
Meg
I tried potatoes in a container this year .It was one potato cut in half, I put some wires to hold up the foliage but we did have almost a gale which damaged the foliage otherwise I think the result would have been better.
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Quote from: laurieuk on January 09, 2010, 15:47:59
I tried potatoes in a container this year .It was one potato cut in half, I put some wires to hold up the foliage but we did have almost a gale which damaged the foliage otherwise I think the result would have been better.
Laurie that's a really good harvest from one seed potato (or 1/2 potato to be exact)!! I had about that amount from 3 gold wonder seed potatoes. What type of potatoes were they?
Meg
What variety....Kestral or KG's if! there's a few to spare.... ;) ;) can find a good 'ome for them.....pay postage ...No wASTE....... ;) ;) ;)
Well done fellow Digger...... :D :'( I ain't got none...
aaallllltogether.......aaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhh!!!! ;) ;) :) ;) :D
Just a note to Meg it was really 2 halves so a complete potato, the variety was Kestral I meant to use Rocket as an early but took out of the wrong chitting box. I always buy new seed now, I did save my own for a number of years when they took a variety we used for exhibition, Catriona, off the market but you have to be so careful that you do not get into virus problems with own seed that I no longer do it.
Quote from: Digindep on January 09, 2010, 17:09:23
What variety....Kestral or KG's if! there's a few to spare.... ;) ;) can find a good 'ome for them.....pay postage ...No wASTE....... ;) ;) ;)
Well done fellow Digger...... :D :'( I ain't got none...
aaallllltogether.......aaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhh!!!! ;) ;) :) ;) :D