Spuds-U-Like

Today I planted the late potatoes in my new patch of allotment. I had to wait for this area to be cleared of overgrowth and can now see that it is in need of some TLC and nutrients.

However, not enough time to do too much as I wanted to get the potatoes in.

These potatoes have been chitted in the light for a few weeks and have good buds ready to grow. I placed them bud up as you can see.

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Once I placed them in the soil at a good even distance apart (45cm), I then covered them with some nutrients. I’m sure all you beer drinkers out there are jealous of my ‘compost’. And yes, it did smell of beer.

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I then covered the potatoes with soil. You will notice that I didn’t build up the soil too much yet. You only do that as the shoots begin to appear, this forces the potatoes to reach for the sky and gives you a better yield.

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