potatoes

Struggling to keep the potatoes under control

May 19, 2011
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I‘m still digging up potatoes from last year’s crop. They’re giving themselves away by starting to sprout, and shooting long stems and thick green leaves up through the soil. It’s a bit galling pulling them all up as they would have made good eaters if they hadn’t started shooting, and I can’t help wondering how [...]

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We’ve harvested our main potato crop

October 27, 2010
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The tops of our potato plants have died down, so we dig up the crop and found 135 potatoes waiting under the surface. A bumper crop that should see us through to spring.

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This year’s potatoes are champions

August 29, 2010
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The potatoes we have grown this year are much bigger than any we’ve had before, and more plentiful, too. Digging them up also has the side-effect of conditioning the plot, so it’s a winner all round.

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Returning home to find rampant potato growth

June 10, 2010
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Sometimes you don’t need to spend all day working in the garden: nature tends it for you all on its own. That’s what we discovered when we came back from a week away to find our potato crop racing ahead.

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Potato progress

June 3, 2010
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Our seed potatoes are going great guns. Right across the plot now we have dark green leaves poking up through the soil. We have so many this should easily keep us in potatoes right through the winter.

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Planting up this year’s spuds

May 4, 2010
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The plot is now covered by small white markers, picking out the spots where we have planted this year’s potato crop. We normally grow them in potato bags, but we have good reason for doing it differently this year…

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Chitting potatoes… at last

March 2, 2010
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Our potato order has finally arrived, so we have laid out the new tubers in the outhouse so they can start chitting. They should be ready for planting by early April for a bumper summer crop.

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Our 2010 seeds have arrived

February 11, 2010
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The seeds for this summer’s crops have arrived, with a few weeks to spare. Although we are still waiting for our seed potatoes and the will need chitting, most of our crops don’t need starting until March.

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The potatoes have survived the snow!

January 18, 2010
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Our home-grown potatoes have surprised us – in a good way. After all the snow and ice they still looked good to eat when we turned out the latest bag.

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Bumper beans and potatoes

August 3, 2009

Bumper harvestAfter months of very slow progress on the plot we managed to bring in a bumper harvest with just an hour of picking, giving us plenty of beans and potatoes to share with friends.

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