Showing posts with label Digging up my bargain 20p potatoes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Digging up my bargain 20p potatoes. Show all posts

Sunday, 31 July 2022

Spuds 2022

 


So I'd been thinking about them all night . I need to go and investigate and see if they are ready .


Despite doing my rain dance , we only had a little bit of Cornish mizzle here this morning . Did you get any rain ? I'll try again later on . 

So the ground is still very dry , but I'll get my trusty old garden fork in there and see what we can find .


If you remember , I found a small bag of potatoes in the reduced counter at the supermarket  for 20p .

I hadn't planned to grow potatoes this year , but thought I'd throw them into this spare little corner .

I have pretty much forgotten about them . I only earthed them up one time with earth and second time with grass clippings . I didn't water them much either , because of the stupid falling apart hose situation and it was a long way to carry the watering can and I needed to prioritise the precious water for all the other more important vegetables . 


We don't eat a lot of white potatoes , I prefer Sweet potatoes , but just occasionally  a few hot buttery little potatoes with some garden mint and salad is nice .

These are from just two plants , that is just two of the bargain reduced to 20p potatoes . So if all of them produce this many potatoes , I think we have done well .

At this point I became of aware of wasps , lots of them (screams) flying out of this nearby tree stump  !


 Look at the size of that hole at the base of the tree stump !  

I realise that I am standing right in their flight path in a skirt and a sweet heady perfume . My camera couldn't focus in on them they are flying out so fast .


So , that's all for today folk !  I'll come back and dig up the others over the next couple of weeks and when the wasps are  not so active .