First earlies...

...are in the ground (25th March)

I dispensed with digging a whole trench this year as with only 5 sets per row it seemed like far more work than was actually needed (and quite frankly after the past week's work I'm rather pooped). The area had all bee dug over anyway so it was a case of...

1) digging some holes

 2) sprinkling a few slug pellets (to combat the underground slugs who,like to nibble potatoes)

 3) Placing chitted seed potato in (eyes up, of course)

 4) filling in holes and earthing up.

First row that went in was Charlotte - lovely salad potato and typical of 'new' potatoes.

2nd row was Anya - a thinnish nobbly potato which sort of resembles a Jerusalem artichoke