🌿🥔🥔Seed Potatoes 🥔🥔🌿

 

Red Duke of York seed potatoes arrived and this year I am doing this with my grand-daughter . She hasn't done this before and it's a fun lesson to learn where potatoes come from other than the supermarket .

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I'm not doing the chitting them in egg boxes thing , nor am I planting them in the ground .

                                                    We're doing it this way 😄

The potatoes arrived a little bit early , so we are going to start them off in pots . However these pots we decided were too small and I had to have a bit of a hunt to find these nice long pots .

We put a good handful of compost over them , but not all the way up to the top .

Covered them over with netting to keep mice out . These are now on a shelf in the garage , where it is dark and cool , to get their roots down . 

They may begin to put up sprouts and we will cover them again with some more compost .

Then as we go into March  I plan to re-plant them into my really large tubs . 

Eventually we will have the fun of tipping them all out , to see how many we can find . 

Meanwhile in the shed , I have a foil survival sheet , hanging on a line ,to reflect the light on to the bench .

I have not grown onions this early before . I was worried they might have shrivelled away or been eaten . ...but all is well . I gave them a tiny drop of water each .

The weather has been beautiful and I have been busy doing laundry , very happy to get sheets and towels dry on the line .

The sun has tried to make an appearance and it is quite mild , but it is pretty much over cast again .

 Right I have to go and make lunch .Husband's been playing working so hard having a bonfire and is hungry -  Vegetarian Shepherds Pie .

                             🌿  Cheerio fer now my lovelies !🌿

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