Spent the afternoon, preparing the ground for this year’s potatoes. It’s been years since I have planted potatoes. For the past 12 years all of the land I’ve had access too has been home to large resident populations of wireworms (the larvae of the click beetle) not only do they love potatoes but they also have incredibly long larval periods (7-11 years!). Well the land we have access to on Karl Hamson’s place looks to be relatively wireworm free. So we’ve got a wide range of potato types that well be planting over the next few days. With any luck in 2-3 months we should have a crop of delicious tubers!
