Yesterday we got all this season's potatoes planted - hooray! This entailed a lot of ground preparation - ploughing and rotavating 1.5 acres - then one long day getting 60 sacks of seed potatoes into the ground. This year we have gone for 4 varieties, 15 sacks of each: Maris Peer as our tried and tested early, Picasso as a pink-eyed early maincrop, Valor as a maincrop, and Sarpo Mira as a blight-tolerant maincrop variety that we are trying for the first time.
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| Pete ploughing the third and final potato patch on Wednesday. |
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| Neus and Felix on the planter, ready to plant Maris Peer. |
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| Felix and Alice on the planter, loaded with Valor. |
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| The second potato patch almost planted. |
Special thanks go to Pete for preparing all the ground on his own (with tractor and Tigerlily!), and to Neus and Felix for sitting on the planter till 6:30 pm yesterday to get them all planted in one day - a great effort all round.
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