Planting potatoes on the moon?

Sonoftheheir

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Arable Farmer
Location
West Suffolk
Anyone else having problems planting spuds?
Some of our land has a layer harder than concrete on top with wet mud underneath.
It breaks up into these lovely boulders!
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Farmer Dod

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Location
Aberdeenshire
Deep ridged some yesterday- dry enough and won't even need bed-basher in a heavy field but amazed how cold the soil is- will need some sun and wind to get into it. Might try destoning tomorrow and planting some Duke of Yorks for the farmshop at the weekend.
 

Norfolk Olly

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Mixed Farmer
Location
norfolk
We should get all ours in by lunch tomorrow, with 130 acres of salads left to get in by end of month.
We have had the bed tiller out on some bits because as you are finding hard on top wet underneath but as a percentage it's probably in single figures over our total area. The rest has gone in very well just needs a drink now!
 

Sonoftheheir

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Arable Farmer
Location
West Suffolk
Going in well on some silty land today.

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Nice tilth there.

Our land is what I call heavy fen, it was more peat than clay years ago but I think it's gone the other way now.It was so light my Grandad even had loads of clay brought in.

This field was sugar beet,but it was subsoiled and ploughed in November. I was expecting some nice frost mould :(

I just hope the other fields will be kinder. I've never known our land to be this hard.
 

ARW

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Location
Yorkshire
We've never used one of those machines, does it put all the clod to the side aswell?
Its combi Web not a combi star. Good machine breaks alot of clods down and chucks the remaining ones out. You can have no clods left at all if you go slow enough, I dont like going less than 1k with it tho
 

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