Small Plot? No Problem!

This year we decided to try growing potatoes in planters, since we had had so much trouble with blight on the allotment. We bought a set of three potato "sacks" and some veg-growing compost at the garden centre, and back in January we bought a dozen seed potatoes at the Potato Day at Ryton Gardens.

I followed the instructions in a video posted on the Grow Your Own website, with great results so far! Here are the "International Kidney" (better known as Jerseys, though since we don't live in Jersey they can't be called that officially), barely three weeks after planting:

And here are the maincrops - the "Mayan Gold" (on the right) is racing away!

Our third planter, containing first earlies, is progressing about the same as the Jerseys. Looking forward to some nice new potatoes this summer!

We've been working hard on the plot this month, trying to get it all in shape for the coming season, and so far it's looking pretty good!

Richard has also been building a compost bin from the pallets we inherited with our plot. I added some slot-in front panels, and the whole thing looks pretty fine, if a bit lopsided - but that's all in the allotment tradition :)