http://escapedchickens.wordpress.com/2008/09/05/easy-potato-growing/ ...veggies, chickens and madness in France, written by Scarlet Merrill Mon, 13 Jul 2009 11:56:40 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 http://escapedchickens.wordpress.com/2008/09/05/easy-potato-growing/#comment-1868 howlingduckranch Thu, 02 Oct 2008 13:05:59 +0000 http://escapedchickens.wordpress.com/?p=222#comment-1868 I just got told by some old timers here that they use straw/hay rather than dirt to grow their spuds in. They say it makes the digging much easier, and the spuds come out clean! I just got told by some old timers here that they use straw/hay rather than dirt to grow their spuds in. They say it makes the digging much easier, and the spuds come out clean!

]]> http://escapedchickens.wordpress.com/2008/09/05/easy-potato-growing/#comment-1841 advertees Mon, 15 Sep 2008 09:00:46 +0000 http://escapedchickens.wordpress.com/?p=222#comment-1841 This is all looking so good, we are having a pretty poor year in Cornwall, with the wet weather nothing has done so well. Some of the permaculture places where I woofed in Newzealand used to put hey or straw on top of their potatoes instead of soil, it kept the weeds down and you could simply lift it up and take a few when you needed them. This is all looking so good, we are having a pretty poor year in Cornwall, with the wet weather nothing has done so well.
Some of the permaculture places where I woofed in Newzealand used to put hey or straw on top of their potatoes instead of soil, it kept the weeds down and you could simply lift it up and take a few when you needed them.

]]> http://escapedchickens.wordpress.com/2008/09/05/easy-potato-growing/#comment-1838 Alan Fri, 05 Sep 2008 23:32:29 +0000 http://escapedchickens.wordpress.com/?p=222#comment-1838 Just makes you hungry doesn't it! Just makes you hungry doesn’t it!

]]> http://escapedchickens.wordpress.com/2008/09/05/easy-potato-growing/#comment-1837 Rosie Fri, 05 Sep 2008 17:05:34 +0000 http://escapedchickens.wordpress.com/?p=222#comment-1837 My spuds got blight but I cleared the haulms off as soon as the leaves started to wither and dug the spuds up a few days later - the desiree were HUGE so I really hope they'll store well. There is something so exciting about digging spuds isn't there? My spuds got blight but I cleared the haulms off as soon as the leaves started to wither and dug the spuds up a few days later – the desiree were HUGE so I really hope they’ll store well. There is something so exciting about digging spuds isn’t there?

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