"Hi Tina, could you try some of the Maori potato types. I have found that they are very disease resistant. Maybe a worthy experiment. Katherine"
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Katherine Lucas replied to Tina Kiernan's discussion Potatoes in Pot in the group Food Growing Questions and Answers
Lorraine Barnett replied to Tina Kiernan's discussion Potatoes in Pot in the group Food Growing Questions and Answers"Hello Tina
potatoes are pretty easy to grow in a pot... I have always done as I do in the garden. prepare the soil well, good drainage at the bottom of the pot, a few inches soil and then lay the potatoe/s on top of there... Cover with a mound of…"
"Well I read in my organic gardening thing that tyres is preferable to treated timber. I'm going to try in tyres and see how I go. My potatoes are in a cupboard shooting as I type... I hope they hurry up!"
Pigeon Valley replied to Tina Kiernan's discussion Potatoes in Pot in the group Food Growing Questions and Answers"Is planting in tyres safe - heavy metals etc?
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Robyn Wolfe replied to Tina Kiernan's discussion Potatoes in Pot in the group Food Growing Questions and Answers"Hello. The other writer is right about the new disease. It can be controlled with Neem Oil (organic) available at Mitre10. You can tell if you have it - there is a sugar like substance on the leaves. Or you could have given it too much nitrogen…"
Tina Kiernan added a discussion to the group Food Growing Questions and Answers
Potatoes in Pot
Hi all..I'm new to this gardening lark, but am enjoying it a lot..!! Not enjoying the cold though, and getting home in the dark - i cant see what happened in the garden..!!Anyway - since i am a renter, i am growing my veg in pots and those great blue recycle bins (thanks to Auckland city council..). Have had a lot of sucess, the big exception is the potatoes.. A total flop, and i dont know why.. i did all the prep, bought seed potatoes from the garden centre, did the mounding up thing - which…See More
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- At 8:20am on February 21, 2009,
James Samuel said… - Hi Tina - it's funny, I just left a note for Gayleen to say I used to live out West in Henderson Valley, now seeing you are from kohi, reminds of when I lived there in 1982. Wow so much water under the bridge since then!
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