The potatoes have been one of the success crops this year and I harvested the last of them mid September. I planted 2 rows of International Kidney potatoes (jersey royals) and 2 rows of Charlotte potatoes, both early salad varieties and both delicious!
This year I decided to add a layer of well rotted manure to the trenches when planting the potatoes and it seems to have done the trick. Even though the harvests weren’t exactly massive, there were more potatoes than last year and to me that is a success. I weighed the last row of Charlotte potatoes and the 9 plants gave me 2 kilos of potatoes, which I’m rather pleased with. And boy did they taste nice, especially whith a knob of butter melted ontop of them!
Up until then I had been leaving the potatoes in the ground until I was ready to harvest them for dinner, theres no better way to store them then leaving them in the ground after all. However, the nights started to draw in and the weather was going down hill, so to save the last row of potatoes getting eaten by pests and slugs I decided to dig them all up and store them at home in a hessian bag. We eat potatoes quite a lot so they didn’t last long, now we’re working our way through my Dad’s homegrown potatoes