Show Us Your Veg Patch - You Know You Want To!! (Merged Thread)

~Chameleon~

SEE wrote: »

I heard that lots of cattle have died this year from eating badly grown sweet poatoes that had been added to their feed:eek:

Only six cattle have died and it's very rare for something like this to happen. There are no known cases of sweet potato poisoning in humans

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2008/jan/15/ruralaffairs.lifeandhealth

MRSMCAWBER

Hi there

Have to say I looked it up on google...thanks chameleon..read your link too ...Still going to grow them -well i allready am:p ...at least i won't be spraying mine with anything nasty....apparently most supermarket ones are sprayed to stop them sprutting which is why you need to scrub them if you want to grow lots of realy good slips off them . Plus i won't use any damaged ones anyway....
Thanks for the heads up by the way SEE.....:D

josie_ann57

Has anybody logged onto the allotments4all website? It's a terrific place to get advice etc and really friendly.

tomsolomon

Do you recon this will stop the slugs???

http://i291.photobucket.com/albums/ll307/TrevorLloyd_uk/DSC00088.jpg
http://i291.photobucket.com/albums/ll307/TrevorLloyd_uk/DSC00089.jpg
http://i291.photobucket.com/albums/ll307/TrevorLloyd_uk/DSC00090.jpg

Jack's_mummy

josie_ann57 wrote: »

Has anybody logged onto the allotments4all website? It's a terrific place to get advice etc and really friendly.

It's great isn't it. So much advice over there - I lurk at least once a day:o

~Chameleon~

MRSMCAWBER wrote: »

Hi there

Have to say I looked it up on google...thanks chameleon..read your link too ...Still going to grow them -well i allready am:p ...at least i won't be spraying mine with anything nasty....apparently most supermarket ones are sprayed to stop them sprutting which is why you need to scrub them if you want to grow lots of realy good slips off them . Plus i won't use any damaged ones anyway....
Thanks for the heads up by the way SEE.....:D

They've just been showing how to grow sweet potatoes on Gardeners World!

Apparently, they are climbers, unlike normal spuds, so you need tall stakes arranged in a wigwam shape for them to climb up. They also said to keep an eye out for any early frosts Sept onwards as they will need lifting to stop them rotting. Should get approx 1kg of potatoes from each slip planted.

Hope this helps you a bit anyway. They said it's a new thing RHS are trialling so this is the first year they've grown them as well. Good luck with it! :T

MRSMCAWBER

Ooooh thanks chameleon :T

I have them in crates in a tent...the ones that are a bit like a cut down proper tent ..and once they get going i will be running strings from the crate and around the frames for them to scramble over..im doing this with melons in the other tent at the moment and seems to be working ..so far.... and i have fleece on stand by... just in case
1 kilo per slip :eek: i have about 40 slips set.... sweet potatoes anyone?:rotfl:

Tomsolomon.. I have that tape around some of my tubs n troughs... the only problem you will find is that if there is any foliage hanging over ..the little blighters comando crawl across it and stil get your goodies:mad: ... oh and after a while it goes like vert de gris(SP)... so i occasionally get a cloth (usually when the weather has been bad and the rain has kicked dirt up)and buff it up...just in case

tomsolomon

MRSMCAWBER wrote: »

Tomsolomon.. I have that tape around some of my tubs n troughs... the only problem you will find is that if there is any foliage hanging over ..the little blighters comando crawl across it and stil get your goodies:mad: ... oh and after a while it goes like vert de gris(SP)... so i occasionally get a cloth (usually when the weather has been bad and the rain has kicked dirt up)and buff it up...just in case

So a good idea to remove the lower foliage then....:D

MRSMCAWBER

tomsolomon wrote: »

So a good idea to remove the lower foliage then....:D

Oh yessssss...they put the SAS to shame....scuttling across anything they can :mad:

SEE

tomsolomon wrote: »

Do you recon this will stop the slugs???

http://i291.photobucket.com/albums/ll307/TrevorLloyd_uk/DSC00088.jpg
http://i291.photobucket.com/albums/ll307/TrevorLloyd_uk/DSC00089.jpg
http://i291.photobucket.com/albums/ll307/TrevorLloyd_uk/DSC00090.jpg

I've done that around my raised beds, but I was mean, and split the tape in half to make it go further:D So far, no slugs on my raised beds:T