Spud harvest "Pink Eyes"

After getting home yesterday I decided as a spur of the moment thing to harvest the pink eyes potatoes. After the past month of dry weather and the recent hot weather, the spuds had almost completely died down and the spuds were perfectly dry for storage. There is something quite relaxing as you pull back the soil and hay to see what surprises await. And even better is that this area that was initially grass is now a new 4m by 1.5m garden bed.

The final result of the harvest from this bed was about 22kgs of spuds. less than pink eyes grown in soil from my data last year but a good return for a patch of grass I say. This years total pink eye spud harvest ended in 32 kgs. This is enough to supply us with spuds until the harvest of the longer keeping spuds in March and April.

This bed will be fed more manure and lime to aide in the further breakdown of the barley straw mulch that is there and will be planted to Purple Sprouting Broccoli and Brussel Sprouts in early February which is when most of my winter vegetables are planted. We are still eating stored carrots from the last winter carrot harvest (as they go to flower in spring we harvest all the remaining carrots).

Delicious Pink Eyes