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February 25, 2007

Planting early potatoes

Filed under: potato — Tags: , , , — TopVeg @ 8:03 pm

Couldn’t wait any longer. The polytunnel has kept the soil dry. The seed
potatoes have strong, stubby, green chits. So, I planted 6 Sharpes
Express & 6 Maris Bard today. I figured that if they do get caught by a
cold frost, I have still got some more chitting on the window-sill.

    * planting depth 10cm

making-shallow-trench

making-shallow-trench

    * cover the potato with soil

cover-seed-potato

cover-seed-potato

    * planting distance in row 30cm

space-potatoes in row

space-potatoes in row

    * distance between rows 60cm

potato-rows-60cm-apart

potato-rows-60cm-apart

Early potatoes are planted closer together than main crop, because we
harvest them when they are smaller.

Early potatoes should be ready for digging in 10-12 weeks!!

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