So here we are in the middle of May and my veg growing year is starting to pick up momentum. One of my long standing favourite vegetables to grow are potatoes. As a child I used to plant out the sprouted potatoes we had bought from the veg shop and not eaten quickly enough and I would get a reasonable little crop from them. I always found this rather magical. Since I have had the veg beds in my current house I have planted potatoes every year. I usually plant them out and then inexpertly harvest them so that I have spuds sprouting from the previous year time after time. Potatoes also take up quite a bit of space that I would rather use for other vegetables, so last year I grew them in containers and I was very pleased with the results. This year I did not even think about it, the potatoes were going into the containers again.
I bought these seed potatoes when I visited Waterperry Gardens earlier this year. This was the last garden visit I did before the lockdown. I now wistfully remember visiting gardens as it was something I loved doing and I hope before the year is out we are able to visit places again safely.
I was also fortunate enough to have been given two different peat free composts to trial at the Garden Press Event in March. I see this as doubly fortunate as we all know how difficult it is to get hold of compost at the moment. I am hoping now nurseries and garden centres can open it will get easier to source.
