potatoes
Potatoes – Getting Ready
You can start digging trenches for your potatoes in February. Early potatoes can also be put in seed trays on a window sill in the house and planted out in a green house in late February, or under a fleece, in early March.
Harvesting Potatoes
Traditionally, people leave the main crop of potatoes in the ground until the autumn, but in my garden, I find that the longer I leave them, the more that I lose to mice. I therefore dig them up once the tops die back, and providing they are reasonably dry, store them in bags in a [...]
Potatoes – Earthing Up
The main concern at this time of yearhas to be potatoes. Everyone has their own ideas about the best time to plant them, but most people would agree that in Brittany all of your crop should be in the ground by the middle of April.
If you have planted early, and the shoots are already above [...]
Basic Potato Growing
If you have not done much vegetable gardening before, the best crop to start with is potatoes – they yield a large crop, taste many times better than any you can buy in the shops, and will grow in previously unworked soil.
The key is to start work now, and to keep doing a little every [...]
Potato Trenches
Since moving to Brittany, I have caught the bug of growing enough potatoes to feed family and friends throughout the year. I still haven't got round to buying a rotovator, so digging potato trenches is one of my best forms of exercise on cold winter days.
