Me too! 😀

Well his hammock adventures are kinda fun too. 😉🤣 As long as no damages occur that is

Good on you. Don't let anyone stop you from being self-sufficient food wise. Farmers are under attack worldwide from our treasonous governments. Being able to grow your own food is a good thing. 🙂

@@jeanfsadni6338 I love growing my own thing and last year my Ex partner parents loved what I did and started to grow their own veg, it was amazing to see the end results

Ive found a company in Maine that has many of the early varieties like Nicola and Charlotte but so far no ones got any of the Sarpo line of blight resistant potatoes yet. But one company mentioned trying to get them here. One I grew this year I can't wait to harvest. Fench fingerling. I dug down a bit and tickled 4 out to try them a couple weeks ago and oh my the flavor is outstanding. My hubby was-geez hun you spent basically a dollar a piece on seed potatoes this spring. But now he tasted and hopes I have enough to eat yet save at least 12 for pots next year. Ive also done an experiment-i took cuttings from the French fingerling plants right away this spring after they had come up nice and the cuttings rooted easily and are almost as big as the mother plants. Cross fingers that they make potatoes. I made a cutting by accident last year with one of the big generic red potatoes from the store. I broke a branch or the deer did, I rooted it and even late in the season I ended up with one huge red potato and 2 small small ones. If making cuttings works I will be starting a few potatoes early under my light banks and taking as many cuttings as possible to plant out. Wish me luck!

@@Emeraldwitch30 you can grow potatoes from the potato peels .

@@markirish7599 I've done that before too.

@@markirish7599 oh I harvested my French fingerling I got 4 pounds and a quarter from those 6 little potatoes but the cuttings need another couple weeks but I peeked into a bucket of just one cutting and counted 4 potatoes showing at the edges so I potted it back up carefully. So they are making potatoes. If I get at least 4 nice potatoes from each cutting its worth it for sure.

@@Emeraldwitch30 best wishes from Ireland 🇮🇪 to you and your family 👪

Indeed it is. About 3,5kg harvest from one bucket using only 2 seed potatoes is pretty good. I got the same size buckets, hope to get that in juli.. I would harvest between 50 and 60 kg which would be enough till next year for me.

I was wondering the same thing.

i get my Charlotte potatoes from aldi.

Watering really well in hot spells is imperative. I used nearly a gallon a day per pot in Summer. That's the most important thing. Cheers Dan

@@Allotment-diaryUk Like I seed, this was my first set. I think I may have done several things wrong. One being that I did not plant the seed potatoes very deep maybe 3" from the top. I did not water too often maybe once every few days, as I would check the moisture level and it was always pretty high. I also did not fertilize very well either. I just set down two more tubs of Rustic Reds. I started with 3" of soil and added bone meal and a 6-6-6 granular fertilizer. Then I added another 3" of soil and more 6-6-6 fertilizer. Then I pushed the seed potatoes down to about the 2 or 3" line. I topped off the soil and put a little blood meal on top and mixed that in. I really think that just planting the seed potatoes deeper in my container will make a bid difference. As there was a good 4 to 6" of unused sail when I dumped my containers. Unfortunately I do not have any beds to place my containers on. So right now they are up on bricks, so that they will drain. I was thinking about adding a 1/2 filled container under my containers, but not sure if that would be the same as placing them on an open bed.

No they're not

They have solanine and are in the nightshade family. Sweet potato leaves are not poison but don't eat Irish style potatoes leaves