veg growing Newbies- Feb 2010! lets learn together!

misskool

rosie383 wrote: »

Can anyone tell me which varieties of potatoes I should be planting now for first earlies? I have all my potatoes chitting ( porch has been potato bound for weeks now!). Unfortunately, while I labelled them as to which variety, I didn't keep the packs which stated if they are maincrop, earlies or whatever.
I have Pentland Javelin, Charlotte, Rooster, Pink Fir Apple, King Edward, Arran Pilot. Which do I need to get in now? I spent a lot of time digging drills in my lottie the other day.
Oh, and I bought a box of fish, blood and bone. Do I have to put this in the ground as I'm planting stuff? Sorry, I have no idea.

Arran Pilot is first early. Pentland javelin is a first early but a little later
charlotte is a maincrop
Pink fir apple is a late maincrop
king edward is an early maincrop
rooster is second early or early maincrop.

Just plant them all in and harvest when they are ready. The arran pilot will be ready in 8 weeks or so (when it dies back) and the rest in succession.

You can dig the fish blood and bone before planting but if you can get a source of free horse muck (well rotted) then the potatoes will love them. If you're planting in drills you may want to be a bit deeper and dig out some spare earth for earthing up. Or grow under black plastic.

Think lynz wants us to move over to the new thread

rosie383

Thank you so much. I wasn't sure that I could just plant them all now. Better get digging again. Not sure that it is drills that I have, but couldn't think what else to call them. I have dug down about 6" or more and piled the earth up along the sides to use for earthing up. Think that's right anyway. We had put manure down in November when we first got our plot, and were digging it over.

nonpol

paybacktime2008 wrote: »

Haven't a clue. By organic I mean personally, no chemical fertilisers or pesticides, the plants can be what they like!:o

So chemical fertilisers and pesticides only reside on the actual plant, they don't slowly change the plants DNA structure over time? Hmmm, interesting.

People buy / grow organic, thinking it's better for them. Maybe not?

It's good to question stuff.

P.S. Don't forget the Aluminum / Barium being sprayed daily, changing / infecting the soil? - L@@K UP!

annie12

Help!!
Come home after being away for over week & everything is growing like mad!!
Need to repot courgettes & peas desperately, can I put them in pots?

floyd

I'm very excited, my Rocket early spuds are literally flying along, so much so that the bag they are in is almost full with earthed-up compost already! Hope it doesn't affect my crop but then I suppose I did plant them very early then covered with fleece so they had a head start.
My beets and lettuce are doing very well so I have netted them to keep the birds away.
FIL is bringing a courgette plant for me to try in a pot (the pot that was meant to have cauli in but they died).

This weekend I will plant my beans indoors to get them going and give my raspberries a feed

elantan

half the thread is missing

elf06

elantan wrote: »

half the thread is missing

So it is - how odd!!

heynonnynonny

Bizarre. Hope you are all watching BBC2!!

vish_2

hrm, what happened to the April thread? x

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:eek:

vish wrote: »

hrm, what happened to the April thread? x

I was just wondering the same?