This Week In The Garden - 09/03/22

So excited to start planting again! Right now is the perfect time to get your seed potatoes planted. It was a nice dry week so we planted out the seed potatoes that we chitted over a month ago, read how to do this here. Potatoes really are so easy to grow, they are the one thing that I managed to grow from the get go when we started growing here at Broadspear 4 years ago.

I am growing four different varieties of potatoes this summer

Charlottes
Jazzy
Duke of York
Maris Pipers

. Here is a step by step for you to follow:

Dig straight trenches 12cm deep and 60cm apart
Plant seed potatoes 30cm apart and cover them with soil to fill the trench.
When the shoots reach 20cm tall, use a rake or spade to mound soil up around the bases of the shoots, covering the stems half way. This is called earthing up.
Watch them grow!