Monday, April 25

Gardening cycles

Nature works in cycles and we gardeners work along with this. We sow, plant, harvest and store our crops until the growing cycle starts again and the cycle is repeated.

Our stored potatoes are coming to an end. The few that are left are producing shoots which tell us that they are ready to start a new growing cycle. We are listening to nature and have been busily planting potatoes over the last few weeks.


Copyright: Original post from Our Plot at Green Lane Allotments http://glallotments.blogspot.co.uk/ author S Garrett

at

5 comments:

  1. MargaretApril 27, 2022

    Our seed potatoes are chitting right now - there's a shortage this year so I'm very grateful that the two varieties I grew last year lasted all the way until now. In fact, we still have a box of Yukon Gold to use up that are still storing perfectly with minimal sprouting.

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. Sue GarrettApril 29, 2022

      We didn't manage to get all our usual varieties, Margaret so have doubled up on some. We've never grown Yukon Gold do you recommend it?

      Delete
    2. MargaretApril 30, 2022

      It's one our favourites. It's an "all-purpose" so just as good for frying/baking as it is for mashing. It also stores amazingly well - we still have some in our cold cellar from last years harvest that are firm and haven't yet started to sprout!

      Delete
  2. NadezdaApril 29, 2022

    Ha ha Sue. The potatoes I bought in a store are producing shoots as well. You have a lot of space to plant your old potatoes. Happy gardening.

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. Sue GarrettApril 29, 2022

      We do Nadezda which is just as well as we use lots.

      Delete

Thank you for visiting and leaving a comment - it is great to hear from you and know that there are people out there actually reading what I write! Come back soon.
(By the way any comments just to promote a commercial site, or any comments not directly linked to the theme of my blog, will be deleted)
I am getting quite a lot of spam. It is not published and is just deleted. I have stopped sifting through it and just delete any that ends up in my spam folder in one go so I am sorry if one of your messages is deleted accidentally.
Comments to posts over five days old are all moderated.