GETTING EARLIER POTATOES
(To the Editor.)
Sir,—lf carried out carefully the following plan for "beating the band" in securing new potatoes at least:a.month earlier than usual is recommended with every confidence to small growers. Secure boxes at least 4 inches deep, open at fop: Nearly fill these with good fine soil enriched with wood ashes or potato manure (preferably both). Invthis place tubers, with 2 or 3 { definite eyes, pressing them down into the firmed soil, and covering firmly with soil. Place the boxes in a sunny, frost-proof position, keeping soil reasonably moist. When green shoots are 3 or 4 inches high, carefully lift each tuber with its mass' of roots and plant in prepared trenches which should be not more than 6 inches deep. The trenches, if frosty conditions persist, can easily be protected with dried grass or branches and the plants ' as they grow gradually earthed'round to top of trench and later on finally "earthed up" in the usual way.—l am. etc
SUNNYBRAE
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 42, 18 August 1942, Page 4
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