Potato planning

Well, I’m one day ahead of schedule: all the potatoes are in. It looks at lot when you see the list, but with my narrow plot I only get eight or nine tubers per row.


– Maris Piper
– Maris Piper
– Charlotte
– Charlotte
– Charlotte
– Charlotte
– Charlotte
– Duke of York (Red)
– Duke of York (Red)
– Cara
– Cara
– Duke of York (Red)
– Pink Fir
– Pink Fir
– Pink Fir
– Pink Fir

I covered the lot with fleece and with it being cold enough to see my breath, I set to with sorting paths (adding the new bark chips down to all paths) and hefty digging out of the old ant nests. Or are they termites? Anyway there are two large mounds that make walking along the side path between myself and Charlotte’s (yet again) derelict site very difficult. So with sharp spade and great verve, I managed to break them up. I don’t quite know what to do with all the soil (still with a few termites clinging to it) but I must confess that I just dropped it over to Charlotte’s side. Bad girl, bad allotmenteer, but she hasn’t been back since that weekend in April and all she is growing is a slug colony over there.

I put up my bean poles. Not in the middle of the plot this year (although I may still do it) but in front of my wheelie bins to try and hide the messy corner of the plot. It feels very optimistic while it is still cold to put up the bean frame, but the forecast is for spring to appear. Any day now.