Spuds in at last!
Finally managed to get the potatoes in at the plot – they’ve been chitting in the house for sometime now and I’ve been meaning to get them in the ground for a while.
Dug trenches and planted at the bottom of them with just a bit of earth on top. Added in B&Q potatoe fertiliser as well as some chicken manure pellets to keep them fed. We’ve got two varieties in, first earlies (Pentland Javelin), which are supposed to be somewhat eel-worm resistant and should be out before blight becomes a problem.
The maincrop is desiree which isn’t resistant to anything as far as I know. So we’ll have to see how things go.
Did a quite count of onion sets:
- 104 red
- 57 first left bed (winter)
- 23 shallot giselle
- 28 far right (winter)
- 28 lower middle left (winter)
There are a number of gaps – need to fill them with some new sets.