Post by moonsmith on Jan 23, 2009 20:00:48 GMT 1
How about growing a bag of spuds.
My daughter grows them in her concrete yard.
Its thick rubble sack [ex-Morrisons] with two black bin bags inside to keep the light out - just a three thickness bag. Cut two holes, an inch in diameter, in the bottom for drainage.
You roll it down to about a foot high and fill with compost.
Place three sets on the compost and cover three inches deep. Because you are going to water with liquid feed you needn't use powerful compost - I will be using used grow bags from a local nursery.
Wait
When your plants get four levels of leaf add compost to cover the lower one and keep covering the lowest layer as each new layer of leaves arrives. This turns the buds at the base of the leaf into tuber stems under ground instead of ordinary stems above it.
Keep going, rolling up the sack until it is full and then let the plant grow as much as it likes until it starts to die back. Cut open bag, heat dripping and chip!
Throughout the process water with liquid feed - I prefer a seaweed based one but any with a high Phosphate will work.
Remember that spuds were originally wetland plants!
And
Never let the little buggers flower - all they want is sex. If you keep taking off the flowers it concentrates their minds on spud making!
Enjoy!
My daughter grows them in her concrete yard.
Its thick rubble sack [ex-Morrisons] with two black bin bags inside to keep the light out - just a three thickness bag. Cut two holes, an inch in diameter, in the bottom for drainage.
You roll it down to about a foot high and fill with compost.
Place three sets on the compost and cover three inches deep. Because you are going to water with liquid feed you needn't use powerful compost - I will be using used grow bags from a local nursery.
Wait
When your plants get four levels of leaf add compost to cover the lower one and keep covering the lowest layer as each new layer of leaves arrives. This turns the buds at the base of the leaf into tuber stems under ground instead of ordinary stems above it.
Keep going, rolling up the sack until it is full and then let the plant grow as much as it likes until it starts to die back. Cut open bag, heat dripping and chip!
Throughout the process water with liquid feed - I prefer a seaweed based one but any with a high Phosphate will work.
Remember that spuds were originally wetland plants!
And
Never let the little buggers flower - all they want is sex. If you keep taking off the flowers it concentrates their minds on spud making!
Enjoy!
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