Chitting begun

 

Spuds batch 2 harvested

A few damaged ones, and in the corner
the last remaining spuds from batch 1

Spud update

Spuds are doing really well, although some stems have snapped due to the windy conditions today. I have been watering them once a week with tomato feed.

Spuds eathed up

 

I put netting around the sides hoping the foxes won't jump over it.

Spuds batch 2 planted

I planted out the spuds I got from Dobies. Quality looks good. I bought 2kg which amounted to 25 spuds so I planted 4 rows of 3 in the greenhouse bed and 3 rows of 3 and 1 of 4 in the large bed.

Potato update

This is the batch I planted on 17 April - one plant seems to be dying.

Spuds planted

Rather later than normal, due to the cold weather which persisted up until a few days ago. I used Charlottes from the supermarket.

First spuds of season sown

I sowed some charlottes (which I bought from the supermarket and chitted for a couple of weeks) in the old strawberry bed.  I will sow some more in about a month to try to achieve a staggered crop.

Here's the first of the three rows that I planted.

First spuds harvested

I harvested the spuds from the three Charlotte plants in the first row of planting.

Charlotte sprouting

One of the charlottes from the first potato planting is sprouting.

First batch of spuds planted

I planted 6 pentlands, and 4 charlottes (which are those furthest from the camera in the first pic above).

Chitting Charlottes

I'm tempted to plant some charlottes in a bag again.

Potato bag updates

There is now some sprouting in the second replanted potato bag which contains 3 Charlottes and 1 Pentland. The first replanted bag, containing 4 Pentlands, is doing well as shown in the first pic above.

Note to self - will have to remember to feed these plants as I'm using the same compost that I used for the first plantings so presumably the nutrients will have been depleted.