Re: Potato Crop


"Jane" wrote
Anyone else noticed that their potato harvest is rubbish this year? I
don't
have many spuds and what I do have are small.


It's our first year on a new allotment, new to us that is.
We dug up our Second Early "Kestral" harvest a few weeks ago and it was
excellent such that we immediately gave away two of the three sacks we
filled as surplus to requirements. Today we dug up one of our Maincrop
"Spey" and that too was extremely good with nice large clean tubers.
So far it's the best potato crop we have ever had by some margin!
Tomorrow I'll dig up the "Romano" but the "Sarpo Axona" will have to wait as
they are still growing and flowering.
Considering we are in a dry spot in the dry part of the country I'm amazed.
Must have been the fact that the ground has lain fallow for 10+ years and we
put on a good thick 4 inch layer of well rotted horse manure and dug it in,
only the plants on the edge have received water from us by can but there is
no difference along the rows.

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Regards
Bob H
17mls W. of London.UK


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