Is it too late in the season for me to sow a crop of spuds here????

Lucky1 said:

Is it too late in the season for me to sow a crop of spuds here????

should be alright – harvest in february.

pepe said:

Lucky1 said:

Is it too late in the season for me to sow a crop of spuds here????

should be alright – harvest in february.

Beauty… I’ll get the elf to give me a hand getting them in this week.

Lucky1 said:

pepe said:

Lucky1 said:

Is it too late in the season for me to sow a crop of spuds here????

should be alright – harvest in february.

Beauty… I’ll get the elf to give me a hand getting them in this week.

Best to buy Seed spuds or not, I have acess to over 10 tonnes of spuds and bring home 5kg of spuds every tuesday for nothing.

veg gardener said:

Lucky1 said:

pepe said:

should be alright – harvest in february.

Beauty… I’ll get the elf to give me a hand getting them in this week.

Best to buy Seed spuds or not, I have acess to over 10 tonnes of spuds and bring home 5kg of spuds every tuesday for nothing.

best to buy certified spuds? – yes
but cheaper and not much worse to plant the babes of cert spuds. unless you can wrangle a deal to get cert spuds for $3-$4 per kilo.

Pepe a few of my garden beds need improving what i am thinking about doing for one of them is planting a few seed spuds that ill get sometime this week covering them with some old hay some got wet up the road when it rained so may be i can get them below $5. and just keep layering the Hay as the Spud plants grow, and improve my soil by letting the hay break down into compost while the spuds are growing? Would this work and is it worth it?

veg gardener said:

Pepe a few of my garden beds need improving what i am thinking about doing for one of them is planting a few seed spuds that ill get sometime this week covering them with some old hay some got wet up the road when it rained so may be i can get them below $5. and just keep layering the Hay as the Spud plants grow, and improve my soil by letting the hay break down into compost while the spuds are growing? Would this work and is it worth it?

Yep…in my best Pepe voice….lol

I really do think the spud area soil is very rich, once they are harvested.

Lucky1 said:

veg gardener said:

Pepe a few of my garden beds need improving what i am thinking about doing for one of them is planting a few seed spuds that ill get sometime this week covering them with some old hay some got wet up the road when it rained so may be i can get them below $5. and just keep layering the Hay as the Spud plants grow, and improve my soil by letting the hay break down into compost while the spuds are growing? Would this work and is it worth it?

Yep…in my best Pepe voice….lol

I really do think the spud area soil is very rich, once they are harvested.

i should have said all, i was replying to pepe and then changed what i was typing..lol…. Thinking of that becuase by the time the spuds are ready to come out the Hay should be broken down into nice soil/compost.

veg gardener said:

Lucky1 said:

veg gardener said:

Pepe a few of my garden beds need improving what i am thinking about doing for one of them is planting a few seed spuds that ill get sometime this week covering them with some old hay some got wet up the road when it rained so may be i can get them below $5. and just keep layering the Hay as the Spud plants grow, and improve my soil by letting the hay break down into compost while the spuds are growing? Would this work and is it worth it?

Yep…in my best Pepe voice….lol

I really do think the spud area soil is very rich, once they are harvested.

i should have said all, i was replying to pepe and then changed what i was typing..lol…. Thinking of that becuase by the time the spuds are ready to come out the Hay should be broken down into nice soil/compost.

Yep:D

veg gardener said:

Pepe a few of my garden beds need improving what i am thinking about doing for one of them is planting a few seed spuds that ill get sometime this week covering them with some old hay some got wet up the road when it rained so may be i can get them below $5. and just keep layering the Hay as the Spud plants grow, and improve my soil by letting the hay break down into compost while the spuds are growing? Would this work and is it worth it?

yes and yes.
i’m doing this myself and spuds do seem to make soil more friable.
- probably best to trench – furrow – the soil and then mound a bit of dirt over them – then heavily mulch.
- worth it? depends on costs (planting, fert, hay, watering) and returns (need to get 10:1)

the taste of home grown spuds is great – so if you reckon you’ll get rain during the growing season then its worth the gamble.
they need potash and acidic soils.

good way to start off a new patch, Veg. But don’t plant tomatoes or any related crop there for a couple of years. Go for other types of crops.

pepe said:

veg gardener said:

Pepe a few of my garden beds need improving what i am thinking about doing for one of them is planting a few seed spuds that ill get sometime this week covering them with some old hay some got wet up the road when it rained so may be i can get them below $5. and just keep layering the Hay as the Spud plants grow, and improve my soil by letting the hay break down into compost while the spuds are growing? Would this work and is it worth it?

yes and yes.
i’m doing this myself and spuds do seem to make soil more friable.
- probably best to trench – furrow – the soil and then mound a bit of dirt over them – then heavily mulch.
- worth it? depends on costs (planting, fert, hay, watering) and returns (need to get 10:1)

the taste of home grown spuds is great – so if you reckon you’ll get rain during the growing season then its worth the gamble.
they need potash and acidic soils.

Few weeks ago they said on Landline that is going to rain on and off till after Xmas or dams are full so i reckon it could be worth it and it will help improve the soil i reckon ill go with it.

Few weeks ago they said on Landline that is going to rain on and off till after Xmas or dams are full so i reckon it could be worth it and it will help improve the soil i reckon ill go with it.
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you’ll get summer rain. how many spuds you planting?

pepe said:

Few weeks ago they said on Landline that is going to rain on and off till after Xmas or dams are full so i reckon it could be worth it and it will help improve the soil i reckon ill go with it.
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you’ll get summer rain. how many spuds you planting?

May do half a Bed of them beds 1.5×3m or do the full bed.