Because my plot is my garden, I have to make the most of every inch of growing space, so this year (as every year) I carefully marked out where my two rows of Lady Chrystl were to be planted, leaving exactly enough space between them to excavate the trench and accommodate the soil for subsequent earthing up.
The seeds spuds were therefore planted in dead straight lines at the bottom of their two shallow trenches, but when they came up both rows were zigzagging all over the place, as if groups of them had been physically shifted a foot to one side or the other. This made my carefully planned earthing up much more
interesting of course!
I know I had a baby fox problem about that time (repeatedly dug up shallots, a buried gardening glove
, flattened carrot enviromesh cage) but there was no evidence they had been near the spuds, least of all managing to replant them in a different place!
One previous year I did find a few spuds had been dug up, but the tell-tale tunnels were clearly visible and I was able to retrieve the spuds where they had been propelled at great velocity all over the garden!
I'm still completely baffled - a senior moment is always a possibility but even on a bad day I couldn't have planted them as higgledy piggledy as they eventually came up!
