Rooster
Posted: Tuesday 13 September, 2011
We lifted our Rooster potatoes yesterday. On the positive side, they are clean and blight free, but we're not going to get a contact with Albert Bartlett based on these yields.
The bed they were in was pretty poor - the soil is, well, sand and we didn't really weed it so it's full of couch grass. There's also a bit of a pan under the soil / sand we added to fill the raised bed. Other than that, it's great :-0
We've still got Druid and Desiree to lift, but I'm not holding out a great deal of hope for a potato-buying free winter.
I've weeded the bit we've cleared and started adding horse poo. I think I'll cover it with black plastic - that seemed to be effective in the fruit garden - and then next year, I'll sow alfalfa, hoping that the deep roots will open up the pan a bit. We have a fifth bed in the rotation specifically for fertility building so it'll be that one next year. All we can do is work year on year to improve the soil.
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