Anyone planting their potatoes out today?

I know its tradition to plant ones tats out on Good Friday but with the threat of snow here in Herts over the weekend I couldn't bring myself to plant them and risk losing them.

Maybe next weekend instead. I'll wait and see on the weather reports.

 

I put mine out in those grow sacks last weekend!! Now waiting for 3 days of snow here :(

 

Do you have any fleece or spare carpet you can wrap them in? That would help or just move them to a sheltered spot.

I'm going to try growing some of mine in grow pots this year as well as in the beds and see if there's any difference.

 

Was bright and sunny when I planted my earlies in the compost heap this morning. Snowed this afternoon!!!

 

Planted my first a fortnight or so ago. in spud bags in the greenhouse. The little darlings have just started to appear

 

I've just gone with an extra helping of fresh compost on top of the spuds to see if that protects them. It's snowed here, then sun, then snow, then sun, then rain, then sun, then hail, then rain, then sun, then hail - the plants must wonder what season it is?

 

I don't think the tubers will get damaged underground - it's normally just the leaves and shoots that get harmed by frost, which then have to regrow.

So in short, the tubers should be fine underground, unless it's a very very hard frost.

 

Luckily sunny again this morning though fairly hard frost last night but hopefully warming up where the spuds are through this morning.

 

I have some potatoes in a bucket and got caught by the frost 2 nights ago, I woke up with that awful something is wrong feeling at 4am (ish) went outside ant there was the frost looked at the greenhouse there was my bucket of potatoes outside the door with crispy leaves. I have put it in the greenhouse again in the hope it will recover. They need earthing up so I will do that today and see what happens!!!

Good to see timecharger's comments that makes me feel a little more confident.

Dave

 

Dave, a tip for growing spuds in containers. When you plant the potatoes fill the pot up straight away, the plants will find their way to the surface and, more importantly, they are protected from spring frosts.