Potatoes Planted

We finished the potato planting yesterday.  We were later than we would have liked to be because we were waiting for a bit of extra seed to come down from Scotland.  My seed calculations are never very accurate.

The planting conditions have been superb throughout.  We only had two wet days and these were over the bank holiday weekend - Perfect.  Apart from a broken chain on the bed cultivator there were no technical hitches either.

It always makes me nervous when things run too smoothly, it usually means that there is a large crop to come and very low prices.  Hopefully the weather will now stay dry.  I would be perfectly happy if we only harvest 12 boxes of potatoes to the acre this year instead of the 24 that we did last year.  This, of course, is only on the strict understanding that every other potato grower only harvests 9 boxes to the acre.