The Gardening Bed

[Worthy4England]

Can't beat a bit of rhubarb crumble. Have made J and J apple and raspberry crumble recently which they like, not sure how they will feel about rhubarb. Will have to try them with it when their father isn't around to make barfing noises and complain that it looks like muscle sinew...

Try them with it directly after marmite on toast. They'll wolf it down.

[Bruce Rioja]

^ top growing!! are you feeding them as well as watering them?

I've absolutely no idea as to what I'd feed them with, Bish.

However, I had been watering them daily whilst it'd been dry. Lord only knows what happened this week though.

[thebish]

^ top growing!! are you feeding them as well as watering them?

I've absolutely no idea as to what I'd feed them with, Bish.

However, I had been watering them daily whilst it'd been dry. Lord only knows what happened this week though.

I think you are supposed to feed them every two weeks... I'm using the b&Q "Verve" potato feed... - couple of scoops in a watering can...

[Bruce Rioja]

^ top growing!! are you feeding them as well as watering them?

I've absolutely no idea as to what I'd feed them with, Bish.

However, I had been watering them daily whilst it'd been dry. Lord only knows what happened this week though.

I think you are supposed to feed them every two weeks... I'm using the b&Q "Verve" potato feed... - couple of scoops in a watering can...

Oh, I've never even heard of that. I thought that water and sunshiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiine made stuff grow?! Photosynthesis and that carry-on?!

[thebish]

^ top growing!! are you feeding them as well as watering them?

I've absolutely no idea as to what I'd feed them with, Bish.

However, I had been watering them daily whilst it'd been dry. Lord only knows what happened this week though.

I think you are supposed to feed them every two weeks... I'm using the b&Q "Verve" potato feed... - couple of scoops in a watering can...

Oh, I've never even heard of that. I thought that water and sunshiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiine made stuff grow?! Photosynthesis and that carry-on?!

The Thompson-Morgan link that I originally referred you to did say this:

To plant up potato grow bags in two easy steps:

- Simply fill the sturdy potato bags by one third with good quality multipurpose compost, and place your ‘chitted’ seed potatoes on top of the compost. Add another layer of compost and plant 2 more seed potatoes on top before filling the rest of the bag with compost.
- Now all you need to do is water them, place the potato bag in a bright, frost free position and wait for them to grow.
- Feed potato plants every other week with potato fertiliser and water the bags when the compost begins to dry out.

http://www.thompson-morgan.com/how-to-g ... es-in-bags

I don't think it's a deal-breaker - but feeding would give you a bigger crop... water and sunlight will give you a crop!

[Dujon]

This will probably sound like a stupid question: Why grow spuds in a bag? Perhaps you chaps don't have any space due to swimming pools and a covey of Mercs parked in the yard?

[Montreal Wanderer]

This will probably sound like a stupid question: Why grow spuds in a bag? Perhaps you chaps don't have any space due to swimming pools and a covey of Mercs parked in the yard?

I did wonder that myself...

[Abdoulaye's Twin]

The Thompson-Morgan link that I originally referred you to did say this:

To plant up potato grow bags in two easy steps:

- Simply fill the sturdy potato bags by one third with good quality multipurpose compost, and place your ‘chitted’ seed potatoes on top of the compost. Add another layer of compost and plant 2 more seed potatoes on top before filling the rest of the bag with compost.
- Now all you need to do is water them, place the potato bag in a bright, frost free position and wait for them to grow.
- Feed potato plants every other week with potato fertiliser and water the bags when the compost begins to dry out.

http://www.thompson-morgan.com/how-to-g ... es-in-bags

I don't think it's a deal-breaker - but feeding would give you a bigger crop... water and sunlight will give you a crop!

Do make sure you feed the spuds. It makes a pretty big difference. Even more important, make sure you're building the soil up every week as the plants grow.

My tomatoes have been a disaster. I thought they would do well here, but after 5 months I haven't even got any flowers opened. My rosemary is on the ropes, the basil and coriander has died and the mint is struggling as is the oregano. Not having any luck this year

[Bruce Rioja]

This will probably sound like a stupid question: Why grow spuds in a bag? Perhaps you chaps don't have any space due to swimming pools and a covey of Mercs parked in the yard?

Because I haven't the room to grow them anywhere else. Simples.

[Abdoulaye's Twin]

This will probably sound like a stupid question: Why grow spuds in a bag? Perhaps you chaps don't have any space due to swimming pools and a covey of Mercs parked in the yard?

Because I haven't the room to grow them anywhere else. Simples.

Grew my first lot of spuds in a bin

[Bruce Rioja]

This will probably sound like a stupid question: Why grow spuds in a bag? Perhaps you chaps don't have any space due to swimming pools and a covey of Mercs parked in the yard?

Because I haven't the room to grow them anywhere else. Simples.

Grew my first lot of spuds in a bin

When we were kids I remember that our mum grew some in an old hot water tank.

[Abdoulaye's Twin]

This will probably sound like a stupid question: Why grow spuds in a bag? Perhaps you chaps don't have any space due to swimming pools and a covey of Mercs parked in the yard?

Because I haven't the room to grow them anywhere else. Simples.

Grew my first lot of spuds in a bin

When we were kids I remember that our mum grew some in an old hot water tank.

For a couple of years I used one of those giant skip bags you can get from B&Q. Pretty much anything works. I do miss gardening here. Limited what you can do with the heat and sand.

[Bruce Rioja]

For a couple of years I used one of those giant skip bags you can get from B&Q.

Great call, AT. Them's the kiddies for next year. Hurrah!

[Abdoulaye's Twin]

For a couple of years I used one of those giant skip bags you can get from B&Q.

Great call, AT. Them's the kiddies for next year. Hurrah!

Stick a wee bit of gravel in the bottom to help the drainage. Amazing how many bags of soil they can take mind! Depending on what you grow, you only need to fill it up part way. I used bamboo canes to frame it

[thebish]

This will probably sound like a stupid question: Why grow spuds in a bag? Perhaps you chaps don't have any space due to swimming pools and a covey of Mercs parked in the yard?

I did wonder that myself...

couple of reasons..

1. lack of space
2. no digging required

[Dujon]

Fair enough and thanks, all. I wasn't meaning to be rude.

[thebish]

Fair enough and thanks, all. I wasn't meaning to be rude.

you didn't come across as rude - not in the slightest!

there's a famous gardening bloke over here - the king of recycling/organic gardening - often appears on top gardening programmes such as Gardeners' Question Time..

anyway - he grows spuds in piles of old tyres that he gets from his local garage free of charge... start with two - plant the spuds - then every time they need earthing up - add another tyre... no weeding, no digging, and cropping is simple - just remove the tyres one-by-one and collect the spuds...



of course - you can just use them as mini raised beds also - and if you are the creative-arty type - you can paint them whacky colours!




they can also be turned inside out and made into fancy-looking planters...

http://www.felderrushing.net/makingtireplanter.htm

[Bruce Rioja]

Fair enough and thanks, all. I wasn't meaning to be rude.

Didn't come across that way at all, Dujon. It was a perfectly reasonable question, I thought.

[TANGODANCER]

Everything in the garden's lovely.

[Annoyed Grunt]

Do you fancy sorting mine out, Tango?