2013: Through the looking glass
This is the view of my vegetable plot today. All nice and familiar – if a little backward – for the time of year. Early potatoes in the background, maincrop in the foreground. Lovely.
Except that it’s the other way round.
Yup: the maincrops are the ones at the back. The tiny haulms getting their first earthing up are my ‘first early’ (ha ha) Rocket spuds.
I put the earlies in the ground in March – on St Patrick’s day, as usual. Then they disappeared. Too damn cold. Now they’re tragically retarded, due for cropping probably as late as mid July.
It’s all a bit of a clusterfuck.
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June 5th, 2013 at 5:59 am
I don’t tend to plant when the packets say you should…just go with the weather. I planted my potatoes out A LOT later than you and they are all very healthy and green above the ground.
June 12th, 2013 at 8:59 am