Unexpected harvest

I'm currently filling a new veg bed up with soil/old compost/leaf mould etc..basically collecting up from around the garden.

I had put potatoes into sacks to grow for last christmas in the greenhouse but unfortunately the frost got them and they died off fairly quickly. That was the end of that and they have sat there ever since due to the big freeze and not being able to get into the greenhouse.

Imagine my surprise when I emptied the sacks today into the new bed and found this little lot of King Eddies....enough foir a couple of meals for Anne and I.



Steve...

 

I have some loverly mint that would go with them a real treat.

 

A nice little bonus Steve. Enjoy.
About putting the wasted potatoes in your new bed - in my experience any part of potatoes which are not completely composted grows. I don't even put potato peelings on the compost heap for that reason. They come up as volunteers all over the place but don't make a good crop. Maybe you want to think about that, or check it out, before you go further with your bed.

 

Just the compost they where grown in went into the new bed Alice, the spuds will be eaten. Only once or twice have I had spuds growing in the compost heap, but not from peelings..from a rotten potato, quick heave with a spade and it also composts.

All kitchen waste gets composted here, even the tea bags....and I've yet to see (and am still waiting for) a Tetley teabag bush to grow..:yho:

But I dont mind volunteers growing around the garden, if they get in the way...they get pulled.

Steve...