Lucky dip gardening

[burnie]

As well as my glass house and 3 raised beds I also have two "traditional beds", the old strawberry bed and my old fenced "rabbit proofed" bed. Last year I grew Charlotte tatties in the old strawbs bed, this year it's peas beans and brassicas. In the old fenced bit I had peas beans and brassicas and this year it has had Rooster tatties in it. I've just been and lifted some tatties for dinner, first there were some "free ones" that were in the old strawb bed, Charlottes missed from last year, got a dinners worth, so that was good. I then went to the "Rooster bed" and the first tattie that came up was a Pink Fir Apple?? not planted those there since 2016, nice spuds they are too, another dinners worth. Finally I found some Red Roosters and lifted the last of that row, not huge , a bit bigger than a Grapefruit, but look in good condition, no slug damage or wire worm that I can see, a bonus day for sure. Planted the last of the spring cabbage in the old strawbs bed just as the rain started, so that saved me a job.

[Plot70]

I have had one or two feral spuds come up both in the garden and on the allotment.
I earthed up one on the plot and one in the back garden.
Around the stem of the one in the back garden an inch wide crack has appeared.
There will be spuds under that one.

[Mr Bones]

So long as they weren't blighted the year before, if a volunteer plant isn't in the way we leave it to produce spuds and haulms for the compost.

[Plot70]

The one in the back garden is not at all blighted and two spuds have come up to the surface where a bird un-earthed it.
There should be plenty below that crack in the soil.