Chitting begun

 

More spuds planted

The seed potatoes I had put aside for staggered planting have all 'chitted' to an advanced stage, so I felt I had to plant them all out today. I think the overchitting may be due to storing them too close to a radiator.

I planted 3 charlottes closest to the camera in the middle row above (forgot to take a photo before filling that trench in), and all pentlands in the third row (to the left in the above pic).

Each row has 10 potatoes.

One of the pentlands had gone a bit mouldy so I discarded that one.

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 under way

I bought a bag of seed potatoes today (Pentland Javelin, same as last year). There were 24 spuds in the bag, I have started chitting 6.

Final batch of spuds

Today I harvested the last 2 Pentland plants.

More spuds

More spuds

More spuds harvested

Dug up another Pentland today.

Another batch of spuds harvested

Today I harvested 2 of the Pentland plants.

Potatoes earthed up

Today I earthed up the Pentlands in the garden.

More Pentlands harvested

Today I harvested two more Pentlands (the two plants nearest the camera in the above pic). The foliage on one of the harvested plants had almost shrivelled away completely, but there was a good crop.
I planted 2 more Pentlands in the spaces previously occupied by the harvested plantts.

BTW, a rogue potato plant can be seen on the right of the first pic above - this must have been from a discarded potato in the compost heap previously on this patch.