Jun 24th, 2008
Did the earth move for you?
It did for our three rows of potatoes, they were treated to their first (and probably only) earthing up today. I’ve no idea if it will help the crop but I had read about it so many times that I thought I must do it at least once, now I can relax in the knowledge it is done.
The great thing about earthing up the potatoes was that now my rows have that ‘you look like you know what you are doing’ look about them, please don’t let on it was pure guesswork! Also it exposed more of the couch and bindweed roots which were quickly despatched to a plastic bag of root death. There is something incredibly satisfying about pulling a weed shoot slowly and extracting the mother root with it.
Fingers crossed the spud gods look down on my work and see that it was good.