Another great step here at the Eco-House, chitting our first potatoes! We’ve been collecting eggboxes for a little while now so we’d be ready, and today I took the kids out to the Hulme Garden Centre in advance of this Sunday’s Potato Day. Here’s our haul, all ready to “chit”: I got a whole range [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Sarpo Mira’
18 Jan
Avoiding Potato Blight
Potatoes should be one of the staple foods we’re going to grow, they store well, are relatively low maintenance, and everybody likes eating them! However they do have one major issue: potato blight. Potato blight can reduce the yield of your plants, and one infected potato can turn an entire sack to useless mush. What [...]
