Potatoes 2022

Three rows of Swift earlies, planted 18 March 2022.  First row planted using Old Alabama Gardener's technique of placing a small amount of fertiliser & bone meal alongside the seed potato, covered up with some compost.  Second row planted as per the first row minus the compost, third row as per the first but with horse manure instead of compost.  Also in the third row I split quite a few of the seed potatoes.  One concern I have is that I may not have waited sufficiently long enough for them to sprout ("chit") before I had planted them.  We'll see.

And a little further up the plot, a further three rows of Charlotte second earlies, using seeds saved over from 2021:

Planted in 3 lots of trenches containing 11 seeds also with compost, bone meal and Growmore fertiliser added:

Also planted in this section: late potatoes of variety Golden Wonder and Desiree (saved) - three rows of each, thereby occupying the remainder of this half of the plot..

Also some other saved seeds from last year, Sarpo Mira, planted 12 seeds occupying one row at the other half of the plot, next to the Borlotti bean plantings.  Again using a covering of bone meal, horse manure, Growmore and chicken pellets: