Early and second early potatoes

My Potatoes are in, planted by my usual method of dig a hole with a trowel about 15cm deep wrap the chitted potato in a sheet of newspaper (which my friend suggested) cover with a seaweed mix of compost and earth up another 10cm or so, I usually earth up just once more when the hulm is about 15cm high.

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Comment by Darren Blick on March 10, 2013 at 21:30: I am till waiting for the weather to warm up before I plant mine out

Don't to risk catching a frost

Comment by Colin Robinson on March 10, 2013 at 22:19: Have you put all your first earlies in at once, David?

I like to space my plantings over a 6-8 week period so I get a much longer supply of 'baby' new potatoes.

Comment by David Ford on March 11, 2013 at 17:13: Colin I wish I could do that but my allotment site is a magnet for potato blight ( in a sharp dip with little air movement) we seem to get it every year and always about beginning of July when humidity is high, so the thinking is with earlies to get them out before then, next year I will try a Sarpo Mira type main crop. I have a blog Wellcome Allotment where I explain more