Potato peelings

Xbigman

Thanks everyone. I'm tempted to try a few potato peelings in buckets and see how it goes. I'll let you know how I get on. I have semi given up on my garden this year. Apart from some carrots hardly anything grew. Soil is full of clay and three trees in the garden (now gone) meant this year is a bust. I picked up some cheap bags of soil and sand so I'm going to did these in, plus the compost I'm now making should set me up for next year.

I've frozen mashed potato in the past but my little freezer just won't take anymore. BOGOF's and the bimonthly ASDA run take up 3/4 of the space. A few years from now when that freezer dies I'll buy a bigger one.
Regards



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Pal

Potatoes are a great thing to plant in clay based soils because they help break it up and improve the soil for next year. If I were you I would get out there and turn the soil over a bit, then plant some seed potatoes while you can. You can then harvest later in the year, wait out the winter and your job rejuvinating the soil next spring will be a lot easier.