Monday, April 13, 2009

Potatoes

When you first get your hands on your allotment they tend to be a mass of overgrown weeds (you get one as the previous owner/caretaker hasn't been using it). This is an example of the one that I've just taken over



So the first thing to do is to start digging. And digging. The allotment I've got is about 20 metres wide by 120 long (65 x 400 feet). That is going to be a lot of digging! So rather than try to do the whole thing in one go I've broken it down into sections and started on creating some small beds - about 1 metre by 2.5. To keep the weeds down and to warm up the soil underneath once dug I cover the ground in weed proof matting



After a few weeks peel the matting back, hoe the weeds out and last weekend in went the first crop of spuds


Cover them up, water them in and sit back and wait till June!

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  1. UnknownMay 26, 2009 at 7:38 AM

    Nice article! There is one little thing you should do when the plants start to get big (mine are getting there now). It is called mounding or hilling (I think it is the same thing) anyway it stops your spuds sticking up out of the soil and going green.

    You just mound the the soil around the stem of your plants. Nothing more than that but your spuds won't go green.

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