Potatoes a go go

They're in! After a month of nurturing them, giving them the best start we could, the time came when our little potatoes had to go out into the big wide world on their own.

Emily and Megan helped clean out the old recycling boxes ready for the early varieties (Red Duke of York and Charlotte). I was going to put all earlies in the boxes but looking at them I felt the containers were a bit small so only a couple of potatoes went in each.

After a good clean to get rid of the traces of ketchup and other gunk we put gravel in the bottom and covered with about six inches of compost which had been mixed with bonemeal and super phosphate. Then in went the seed potatoes (very carefully) and we gave them a good soak.

Emily and I then dug up the corner of the garden near the raspberry canes. More bonemeal and super phosphate got mixed in and then the King Edwards and Desirees along with the remaining earlies. They're in there somewhere!

I made a little map of what went where which may come in handy later! I think I'm going to miss the little spuds. They've been sitting very happily on the window sill chitting away. However I don't think Mrs Matt will miss them as it means the blinds can now be shut without the risk of breaking off a tiny potato shoot!

Another job we managed to do was put out the strawberry plants into a reasonably sunny patch. In total there are 8 plants there - 3 Cambridge Favourite and the remainder are 'unknown' (thanks Hillary!)