Growing potatoes

You haven't had a potato until you have had a home grown potato!

Last year I tried to grow my potatoes in a cage. But I had little success, when the plants all rotted off. The mulch was too heavy and thick and I loved them to much aka too much water. Most amusing though 2 of the 4 plants came back this year!

To create the potato cage prepare a 1m square of soil, pop in your spuds, mulch well, put in steel posts and then put a cage of wire around it. The object of the wire is to keep the mulch in as the plants grown up.

This is last season's cage. There is 2 plants of the right that came back up and a healthy parsley on the left that self seeded.

This year I am trying spuds in a sack. I have found hessian sacks at the fruit shop of $2 each! It is very simple to do - roll down the sacks, add soil, spud and mulch. EASY!

So fair no rotting and I have rolled up the sack and added mulch 3 time since this pic was taken!

This sack contains 2 potato plants... so easy

This week in the garden I am rearranging things to make better use of the the space. I had put in a few plants that were to just stay in that spot temporarily until I had other gardens prepared. So off they went to their new homes. Hubby trimmed the hedge, but I still have to dig over an area in the garden that is compacted and add some compost and the fertilizer that the kids and I collected at my mum's place earlier in the week. Aka cow and horse manure.

I still have to get my melons and pumpkins in. I am leaving them a bit late but we had afew late and nasty frost during spring so I didn't want to put any out. But now we are in the thick of summer I guess I better get around to it. But now it is time for bed oh dear look at the time 11.20pm! Eek

I hope you have a productive and exciting week..... g'nite!