Tuesday, November 11

Baby Potatoes...

Just a quick one, but I had to record our very first potato harvest!
They were planted on August 16th, four little seed potatoes using the garbage bin method. Due to attack by evil 28 spot ladybirds, the first two bins aren't looking too happy anymore- the leaves are all droopy, chomped and some are a bit yellow... anyway, impatient DH decided it was time to empty out the first bin ("it'll be an experiment") to see what progress had been made.
Here are the results...
...about 500g worth of baby sebago potatoes. They were all down the bottom, growing off the original root system- none had grown off the stems which had been covered in the second layer of dirt and mulch.
So at least we know that there are some growing down there! The rest of the bins will be left until the leaves etc completely die off, so hopefully a slightly larger yield from them!

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