The most important thing to do today was to dig up the first of this year’s crop of potatoes to have with dinner. I went to one of the plants at the end of the bed, pulled all the haulms together and lifted. Wow! There were clearly quite a few potatoes there! I picked out the ones I could see and then explored for more. And more. And they just kept coming! This is the entire harvest from that one plant.
Close to 2.3kg in total. I can’t imagine all the plants will be as productive, but if they are then I can see us eating potatoes with every meal until Christmas 😀
I also needed to get started on replacing the insect mesh over the brassicas with bird/butterfly netting. I got a fair way with that, but eventually ran out of time. Not least because it was just so unpleasantly hot and humid today. At one point I came indoors for a drink and was almost literally sitting in a puddle of my own sweat. Euwww.