I can’t believe how quickly our potatoes are growing. They were wrinkled spuds less than a month ago, slowly growing shoots in the outhouse. Now look at them – they’re proper little plants.
At this rate I reckon we’re going to have to top them up within a week or they’ll start showing their tubers above the ground, and you don’t want that. If they see the light they go green and that makes them poisonous, so no good for eating. That’s why, every few weeks or so as the foliage gets taller, you top them up by piling up the topsoil around them.
There’s a definite bias towards the seed potatoes planted on the sunnier half of the plot, but even those that are growing in the shadow of the bushes at the back of the garden are starting to poke up above the top of the plot. With 31 plants on the go it looks like we could be in for a bumper harvest.
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Looking good! We are trying to grow potatoes for the first time this year, using the cage method. I was astounded how quickly the plants grew once those little green leaves poked above the soil! Even in cool, rainy weather they seem to grow almost before your eyes. (haha)