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 Thu, 09 Feb 2012 00:52:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: The Cottage Smallholder » Improving the soil in the old kitchen garden http://www.cottagesmallholder.com/today-is-the-long-awaited-digging-up-dannys-potatoes-day-3695/comment-page-1#comment-71999 The Cottage Smallholder » Improving the soil in the old kitchen garden Tue, 15 Mar 2011 21:07:36 +0000 http://www.cottagesmallholder.com/?p=3695#comment-71999 [...] in the new kitchen garden. We discovered the basket weavers’ kitchen garden three years ago when Danny decided to grow some spuds in a new border. The lawn here had been very green and lush. A clue that I’d ignored until [...] [...] in the new kitchen garden. We discovered the basket weavers’ kitchen garden three years ago when Danny decided to grow some spuds in a new border. The lawn here had been very green and lush. A clue that I’d ignored until [...]

]]> 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.

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