My Azada hoe having a lie down.
Azada apparently is Spanish for "hoe". I have mentioned this tool several times or more on here. I could not recommend a better tool for slicing off vegetation and digging and tilling with.
Indeed if you have just took on a overgrown allotment I would recommend you invest in a Azada.
We planted up six raised beds of seed potatoes and we planted six small net bags of early seed potatoes. Traditionally potatoes are planted on Saint Patrick's Day here in Ireland. We planted ours a few days let when the temperature rose to 7 degrees.
I opened two trenches and planted the chitted seed potatoes 30 centimetres apart and a foot in between the rows.
J placed the seed potatoes in the trenches and we covered them with soil and well rotted fym. We planted; "Duke of York", "British Queens" and "Homeguard". Developed during WW2 and named after the volunteer "Dad's Army" civilian army volunteers.
I will make more space for second earlies or main crop.
Hopefully I will find some more cheap seed potatoes in the discount supermarket/ garden centres and beer providers? Our Lidl hasn't got any left. I may have to buy some dearer ones from a garden centre or farm centre.
Anyone else planted their seed potatoes yet?
Not planted mine, there is some growth but they are slow this year.
ReplyDeleteYes things are very slow in the veg garden. I like to have our new potatoes ready to harvest before it gets too hot. I planted them before the rain starts tomorrow.
ReplyDeleteI'll be buying our potatoes from the greengrocer. They won't taste like yours!
ReplyDeleteYes Linda. Ireland can grow potatoes. I think it's the fym and soil and potato varieties. Chemical free and the Irish rain give them their taste.
ReplyDeleteAzada may be Spanish for "hoe" but "hoe" is American slang for prostitute. You could dig and till with one of them but I think you are better off with your wife.
ReplyDeleteI didn't know that. The Azada takes the back ache out of digging.
DeleteI always go through my house potatoes and plant the ones that have begun to sprout. Can you do that?
ReplyDeleteI always buy seed potatoes Debby but I have planted shop bought ones. Seed potatoes give you a better harvest.
ReplyDeleteWe planted our earlies about 10 days ago, in pots on a self watering system. The others will go in , in the next few days. Each bucket gives us enough for 2 days and we dont get slug damage.
ReplyDeleteKathy
Sounds a good system Kathy. We grow some in bags and the others in the ground.
DeleteWe have just planted out our potatoes. Only two!.. they had sprouted from a bag of shop bought spuds so P has planted them in large cement sacks with compost from our garden heap. Free spuds!
ReplyDeleteYes. I once knew an allotment tenant who grew his potatoes from potato skins with eyes.
ReplyDeleteI did get my boards for my raised beds today. Oh...and Levi made me a chicken coop!
ReplyDeleteExciting times and two blog posts subjects Debby.
ReplyDelete"30 centimetres apart and a foot in between the rows." Are you sure it wasn't the other way round?
ReplyDeletep.s. the plant that appears at the edge of the third-last picture in my last post is the streptocarpus we talked about some time ago, since divided into 3. You'd sell loads of these when they flower and look so impressive.
Yes you are quite correct Tasker. I got it the wrong way round. I have a north facing garden (Northsider) and there is not a lot in flower at the moment.
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