Thursday, 5 April 2018

Potatoes planted

I planted the Arran Pilot potatoes today - they looked a bit shrivelled but I hope they'll be ok. I planted 3 rows in the greenhouse bed, and 4 in the large bed, each row having 3 spuds (with a couple of leftover ones in a 5th row). On each spud I took off the extra sprouty bits leaving only one on each. I dug a bag of manure into the greenhouse bed before planting the spuds, intending to do the same in the large bed, but I forgot and started planting the spuds in the large bed before I added the manure. I did put some home made compost in each hole for the spuds. I spread a bag of manure on top of the soil in the large bed after I planted the spuds there.