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<\/a>Potato bags in June<\/p><\/div>\n
The growth looked really healthy. As the growth spilled out of the bags it hit the ground then turned to grow upwards again. There was plenty of growth on the potatoes throughout the summer.<\/p>\n
As always we waited for the green to die away before harvesting the potatoes. I let our shop bought potatoes run out, ha ha, before harvesting the first bag.<\/p>\n
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<\/a>Potato bags<\/p><\/div>\n
We had three bags but I forgot to take the photo until we had emptied the first bag.<\/p>\n
Well …. disappointed doesn’t really go far enough!<\/p>\n
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<\/a>The entire crop from one bag<\/p><\/div>\n
This was all of the potatoes in one bag in an old washing up bowl. The bigger potatoes had rotted and the smallest potatoes were from the size of a grape down to the size of a current.<\/p>\n
When I pealed them I needed to take a thick layer off as they seemed to be rotting from the skin inwards. The biggest ones had rotted all the way through and the others had rotten patches on the skin but were okay inside. The smallest ones had to be thrown away as they too small to do anything with.<\/p>\n
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<\/a>The entire crop of one bag once pealed<\/p><\/div>\n
This is a pudding basin and these potatoes will just about do three meals for the two of us and we eat fairly small meals. On the positive side, they didn’t have wire worm! I think we can conclude that we won’t be bothering with this method again.<\/p>\n
We put the compost in the run for the girls.<\/p>\n
![\"Compost](\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/compost_emptied_into_the_run.jpg\")
<\/a>Compost emptied into the run<\/p><\/div>\n
We went through it with our hands and then a fork as potatoes are poisonous to chickens, although they do usually avoid anything that is poisonous, but we don’t want to take any chances.<\/p>\n
![\"The](\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/the-girls_scratch_and_spread_the-soil.jpg\")
<\/a>The girls scratch and spread the soil<\/p><\/div>\n
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<\/a>The little girls have their turn<\/p><\/div>\n
At least the compost will help to build up the soil level in the run. We won’t bother with growing potatoes in bags again and will probably just put them back in the ground next year. You have to try these things but I am going to call this experiment a failure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The first few years we grew potatoes on our veg plot in this garden they were amazing. We got some huge potatoes and they were particularly good for roast potatoes and chips. The next few years they were full of … Continue reading