First spuds in the ground on the allotment.

I spent one of the last set of days down on the plot , mainly digging, rotovating and moving pallets until I was about broken. Then a day attacking the garage at home, which after a winter of neglect was in a right old state. I was pleased to get back to work for a rest !

With the weather still being too dry but at least sunny, we decided to dash back down to the allotment after work tonight and see if we could get some of the spuds into the ground.

The little Mantis tiller made short work of making the trenches and in about an hour we got 6 rows in. 3 rows of  "Swift" first earlies and 3 rows of  "Pink fir apple" a vintage maincrop.....supposedly producing lovely knobbly pink skinned spuds.

Well that's it tea time now. Just a few snaps of our first efforts at spuds in the ground growing.....last year we only grew them in bags, so a whole new challenge growing on a little larger scale.

 

The boys watched over to make sure everything went to plan........well more like they remained captive to make sure everything went to plan !

This weekend we start on the great pallet mountain and try to turn them into an allotment shed !