Once again my plan to start planting potatoes on St Patrick’s day hasn’t worked out. There’s been some dry days but the ground is so wet that working it isn’t sensible. The traditional Irish planting day makes more sense for us – when possible – than going for a later Easter planting because our climate is nearer to Ireland than England.
Checking the seeds sown last week, some had germinated and were emerging from the compost, others are yet to show and I wonder if they will. Remember most of the seeds were from previous years and technically some were well out of time.
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