Week 15 - Bed PC7 Planting

This bed was prepared last week by cutting the sod off the top and removing it. The soil was then dug to the depth of a spade without going too far into the compacted layer of stones about 25cm down. In this bed we planted two types of potatoes:

• Orla Potatoes (23 chitted sets, north part of bed) - a first early variety with creamy white oval tubers with light yellow flesh
• Maris Peer Potato (17 sets, south part of bed) - a second early (or early maincrop) variety with cream skin and creamy yellow floury flesh

In the next few weeks we will sow bot peas and broad bean seeds, to grow up in among the potatoes as a polycrop.