Comments on: The long awaited Digging up Danny’s Potatoes Day http://www.cottagesmallholder.com/today-is-the-long-awaited-digging-up-dannys-potatoes-day-3695 Stumbling self sufficiency in a small space Sat, 31 Jul 2010 00:29:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Allotment blogger http://www.cottagesmallholder.com/today-is-the-long-awaited-digging-up-dannys-potatoes-day-3695/comment-page-1#comment-62808 Allotment blogger Wed, 09 Sep 2009 18:32:09 +0000 http://www.cottagesmallholder.com/?p=3695#comment-62808 Congratulations to Danny! Our maincrops were disappointing this year - we grew Desiree but in soil we'd had little chance to work on. Our earlies went into a better patch: well dug and manured, and were four times as productive. Next year we're growing Cara and putting in some organic chicken pellets now to feed the soil. Congratulations to Danny!

Our maincrops were disappointing this year – we grew Desiree but in soil we’d had little chance to work on. Our earlies went into a better patch: well dug and manured, and were four times as productive. Next year we’re growing Cara and putting in some organic chicken pellets now to feed the soil.

]]> By: fn http://www.cottagesmallholder.com/today-is-the-long-awaited-digging-up-dannys-potatoes-day-3695/comment-page-1#comment-62785 fn Wed, 09 Sep 2009 09:51:49 +0000 http://www.cottagesmallholder.com/?p=3695#comment-62785 Hi George What a shame. We did coddle D's spuds. Dug a lot of good well rotted organic stuff from the composter into the soil and avoided any feed including nitrogen (spuds hate nitrogen apparently). We also watered them regularly with our drip water butt system. Hi Sebbie How disappointing. John’s spuds were like that. But the soil in his bed was not nearly as good as the soil in D’s bed and I reckon that makes all the difference. I dug some of D's spuds up and even though I was gentle I managed to spike quite a few with the fork :( We also had a bit of wire worm damage - yuk. Hi George

What a shame.

We did coddle D’s spuds. Dug a lot of good well rotted organic stuff from the composter into the soil and avoided any feed including nitrogen (spuds hate nitrogen apparently). We also watered them regularly with our drip water butt system.

Hi Sebbie

How disappointing. John’s spuds were like that. But the soil in his bed was not nearly as good as the soil in D’s bed and I reckon that makes all the difference.

I dug some of D’s spuds up and even though I was gentle I managed to spike quite a few with the fork :( We also had a bit of wire worm damage – yuk.

]]> By: sebbie http://www.cottagesmallholder.com/today-is-the-long-awaited-digging-up-dannys-potatoes-day-3695/comment-page-1#comment-62770 sebbie Tue, 08 Sep 2009 21:19:23 +0000 http://www.cottagesmallholder.com/?p=3695#comment-62770 I dug up our potatoes on Sunday and was wondering about yours so this was a timely post. Ours were mainly disappointing, small and lots of slug damage. (And typically I put the fork through the ones that weren't). They have however done the job of breaking up the soil. We were also lucky enough to be given some of our neighbours which were quite the biggest potatoes I've ever seen :-) I dug up our potatoes on Sunday and was wondering about yours so this was a timely post. Ours were mainly disappointing, small and lots of slug damage. (And typically I put the fork through the ones that weren’t). They have however done the job of breaking up the soil.

We were also lucky enough to be given some of our neighbours which were quite the biggest potatoes I’ve ever seen :-)

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