Tuesday 31 May 2011

doing the spuds


Busy busy, keeping things watered. I got sunburnt and then caught in the brilliant rain. I've put in the main potatoes. We'd prepared for doing them no dig, as I mentioned before, but then the deliveries of compost finished and I couldn't find anywhere to get straw bales from so I was a bit behind. In the end I made do with comfrey, straw from wilkos and the manure that we get at the plot.

Chitted spuds down, a layer of cut comfrey leaves, a layer of straw and then all covered with manure. Please note my nice spiral design. You can see the layers quite well below. Fingers crossed that they grow. We'll see.

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