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Potato Progress: Photos and Diagram

April 15, 2009

After returning from work in Toulouse for a week (it’s a hard life I know!), I was delighted to see the potatoes had grown to 15 cm in height and were ready for more compost.

As you can see, the charlotte potatoes (top) have shown much more growth than the pentland javelins (bottom). 
Just over a month [...]

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Getting the Potatoes Down Before St. Patrick’s Day

March 12, 2009

They say in Ireland to get yer potatoes in the ground  by St. Patrick’s Day so I’ve put down two types of potato in the trough I built a few days ago on the balcony.

I hadn’t provided space in the masterplan for the potato trough but was able to squeeze it in opposite the bean trellises.
Chitting
The two [...]

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Turning a Kitchen into Potatoes

March 8, 2009

Over the weekend I’ve been putting my limited DIY skills to the test to construct a trough-type structure for growing potatoes out of some old kitchen presses.

OK so strictly the kitchen isn’t literally being turned into potatoes but it is definitely going to help in potato cultivation. My parents have just renovated their kitchen and [...]

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