Seed Potatoes

I'd go with top dressing being a good thing, the high nitrogen from the chicken poo would produce a lot of top growth which would then be absorbed by the tubers.

Blimey, wonder what mine would have been like if i'd used the pheasant poo from the game farm behind me, they were as big as a fist with just a saw dust mulch !

The farmer has offered me a load. so might mix that with sawdust this year. Then i'll get the insulation value of the sawdust, plus the nitrogen will help rot it down eventually.

 

Comfrey is rich in Potassium, and is also said to improve flavour of Potatoes. First crop of Comfrey comes at the time that spuds are planted so no reason not to I reckon

 

So banananana skins & comfrey underneath & chicken poo & sawdust on top. We could have started a trend for potatoes that taste good here.

 

Thought it would, but comfrey, manure or fertiliser at the start will do that for you wont it?...or does that "run out" halfway through growing?

Are potatoes really that hungry that they need a second helping in their short lives?

Steve...

 

Dunno the answer, but folk have been using the "Comfrey trench liner" approach for yonks, and old-hands say it improves flavour. (they say some other, idiotic, things too of course !)

 

Slap on the wrists for me!

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I have just read that it is possible to over manure and fertilize as well!

If too much of the above are used, plants will and cannot take up surplus nutriments, so the surplus is wasted.

Me, I am very heavy handed both with manure and fertilizer SO --

News Years resolution "go easy on the goodies!"

 

I am using the bags my horse manure arrived in to grow my potatoes the medium is 2 part topsoil 1 part Horse manure that is nice old stuff also has a bit of bone meal in too
the seeds are all first earlies 2 x white they are Sharps Express and Rocket the reds are Red Duke of York
and I am putting some mor reds in the front right hand side garden where I want to try and improve the soil I am using King Edwards there as a maincrop

 

I know I'm slightly late on this but the big blue Ikea bags work ok for potatoes. Plus, they drain and have handles.
Liz