We’re trying something different with the potatoes this year. Last year they got blight and while we managed to salvage quite a few, it wasn’t as many as we’d have liked.
So this year we decided to grow them in bags instead of in the ground, and to try planting a couple a month through the year to see what happens. We’re using animal feed sacks, and I’m putting three seed potatoes in each, assuming one won’t make it.
I’m following a process I have read about where you pop the seed potatoes in a little soil in the bag, roll the sides down and then gradually fill it up as the plants grow.
We also bought proper seed potatoes to use – ones with a degree of blight resistance, as the ones we had previously used were of unknown source.
So far the ones I planted mid February and growing well and I planted another couple of bags last week.
Hopefully, if we do get blight in one bag, it won’t be as easy to pass to the other plants. But we’ll need to see how that works out in practice :
Ship!
This was an early morning photo which I hoped would be more dramatic. You can just see a ship near the horizon and it looked quite unusual in real life as the sun was catching the top of whatever was on the ship.
