Ha ha, no, I think manure is probably apt... I can't answer your question though, re use of it with potatoes, sorry.

Cheers.
I just spotted "love plants, no good at veg/fruit".

Another chuckle ... I always thought veg were plants and fruit grew on plants.

;¬))

I seem to remember that manure shouldn't be used where you are planting root crops, but I'm not 100% sure, nor do I know why that would be.

I think that applies to carrots and parsnips, Gattina, rather than potatoes.
Brainnake: I should better have said love ornamental plants, know sweet fanny adams about veggie growing...

Just watch what you say about Fanny Adams, Bamboo.
;-)))) I am perfectly serious when I tell you that my Great Grandmother was one Frances Adams. From what my Grandmother and Grandfather told me, she wasn't all that sweet, though.

I was being polite - the words in my head, although beginning with the same letters, were certainly not Fanny Adams...

I know, I know.... It's a cross the family has to bear, everyone taking her name in vain. :o))))))

Funny how one thing leads to another. Bb's right about the root vedgies, it causes carrots, parsnips and their ilk to fork and go funny. Need it for spuds though.

Comical aside ... Name Kane, initials B.B. and yet I never managed to gather either "Sugar"or "BamBoo" as any of my nicknames. Not that I tried. ;¬))

I've revelled under "Esserprof Croc"(≤11), Kanyl chloride, (2ndry school), TIKI (College), Ooer bwoy (West cumbria Fire Service) "and finally Cyril" Marti (East Cumbria ditto)

Very inventive.

You know, recently, I've read a few posts to which I've contributed and seen the term 'Bam' and BB and Bb, and every time, I think, what's that supposed to be... and then I realise, its a diminutive of Bamboo... slow on the uptake, me!

Well done Booboo!

Oh, I quite like that - you know, I'm only bamboo because I put my email address (which has bamboo in it) into the wrong box. I think I prefer booboo...

Errr What's up Yogi?

Hey up! You know what's next?

I can't "bear" the suspense.

Now that's odd - booboo just meant 'mistake' to me, but of course, floating up from my memory once you mentioned it, Brainnake, came booboo, Yogi's sidekick. Perhaps not, then, I'll stick to Bamboo, lol!

;¬))

Brainnake you need to put compost or well rotted manure in the trenches before you plant your potatoes. The roots will then go down into same whilst the 'shaw' or 'hame' will grow up through the soil. Remember to keep earthing up until you can't do so any more as this will encourage more potatoes to form and protect them from the light.

Cheers Moony.
I have grown ye spuds many times B4 and always wondered on the grounds that so far as one can tell on lifting them, all the growth seem to have been uppards.
;¬))

Cheers Moony.
I have planted ye spuds B4, many times and always wondered which way coz, on lifting them, all the growth APPEARS to have been uppards.
;¬))
BTW ... Just read your "About me." How did the moon sowing do? Or is it too recent?

Yes the growth is upwards but the roots go down into the compost/well rotted manure.

Regarding the Growing by the Moon trials indicate that this does work...

Brainnake, everyone here in Italy regards sowing seed and planting out, both crops and in the garden, by the phases of the moon as being perfectly normal, and have done it for hundreds of years. We buy our lunar calendar every December. If I plant something under a waxing moon when it should be planted under a waning one, or vice versa, my neighbours will be watching and will give me a very hard time. Most farmers have a planting almanac which they will consult if in doubt. When I buy seeds, I will always get instructions - "Don't plant until Wednesday, when the moon turns, will you?" Try it yourself!

I can't render "Grand as owt." Meaningfully in either English or Italian.
Niether "Buona come qualcosa di."
nor "Good as anything." does it justice, where's my best source of info?
T.I.A.
;¬))
Sorry about the previous double-do one vanished and I, more or less repeated myself, then it re-appeared.

I'm afraid "Buona come qualcosa di..." doesn't mean anything except in Googleland, Kanyl chloride, Certainly not in Italy! Could you sort of TRY translating into English? ;o)))))

As I said ... I can't render "Grand as owt." Meaningfully in either English or Italian.
A, verbatim, translation from the original Cumbrian .,.. "Grand as owt." is rendered as "Good as anything." and most emphatically does NOT do the expression justice.
:¬))

I have found numerous references, some more difficult to follow than others.
For instance... at http://www.lunarium.co.uk/calendar/universal.jsp
I found....

Lunar Day. Depicted by a number inside a hexagon and followed by e.g. 01:17
Lunar Station (Mansion). Is a round cornered square containing a number.
Apogee and
Perigee. I can look up to refresh memory but cannot find anywhere in this month's calendar.
Void of Course Start. A ∆ pointing right
Void of Course End. A ∆ pointing left.

DUH?!?!? Where's the easiest for a senile delinquent beginner?

Take a look at

http://www.the-gardeners-calendar.co.uk/Moon_Planting.asp

Or buy the book In Tune with the Moon

http://www.findhornpress.com/ecology-nature-and-geomancy-14/in-tune-with-the-moon-2012-438.html