Potatoes

Just about to harvest my first potatoes of the year. I would like to know - can I plant more straight away, or should I leave the soil to 'rest' for a while?

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If u gonna plant more u better get on it. If u got any homemade ferts or compost u could mix it through, otherwise you will have to liquid feed throughout, depending how spent your soil be. If you have the time you can condition your soil, but if its usable you best getting it used. I plan to green manure and then mulch my clay based ground over the winter months.

 

I don't think there is a rush ... I plant Spuds in first week of August to have new potatoes for xmas. There is enough light for them to develop before the frosts arrive, which kills the tops (unless they are in bags, and you have brought them into a greenhouse / conservatory ... or you are Up North ! )

I do buy "prepared" seed tubers though - basically they have been in cold store - because there is not enough resting time for newly harvested seed potatoes to be ready to sprout (I forget how long that is, but something like 90 days I think, so would have had to have been harvested by 1st May)

 

Leeks would be a good crop to follow Early Spuds. You'd need plants now though, rather late for seed. (Plants generally available in markets / Car Boot Sales, or on eBay)

 

Time is always a'wastin. Do it today and get results tomorrow. With haste right now, plant it all and plant at least a quarter too much of it. Quickly. there is very little time and the journey is dangerous. Take this.

 

best post Ramshackle, I am off to do it - now! ----------------------------->>>>>>>>(looks at moth in a worried Checkhovian way)