Planting potatoes

We haven’t done potatoes for some years because I find them too much effort. All the digging and mounding up and weeding of such a large area - and then the bastard voles eat a load of them anyway!

But this year we decided we had better make more efforts at self sufficiency. I had to ask specially for the seed potatoes at Point Vert as the lock down rules had closed that part of the shop (no selling flowers)

We started a new bit of ground for them. Here it is roughly rotovated

This is the main potager area and it is off the end of this to the right on a slope

The potatoes

Beautiful! Two beds of them.

Here is Doug rotovating another bed in the main potager. I didn’t get a photo of him doing the bit for potatoes