Christmas Potatoes Experiment
Sleigh bells ring, are you listening? In the lane snow is glistening………. By the time you read this dear reader Christmas will be but 15-weeks or so away. Aside from Bing Crosby on the radio, the goodwill to all men, family gatherings, presents under the tree and general feeling of joy that Yuletide brings, there is one thing that matters at Christmas time - a really good roast potato! I am experimenting with growing potatoes for Christmas dinner this year, not as I would usually growing through the spring and summer harvesting in autumn and storing in hessian sacks until needed, but by planting in August to actually harvest in December. I have some Maris Piper seed potatoes, the best for roast spuds, and have thus far basically treated them exactly as I would if sowing in March, left them on a windowsill to chit for a few weeks before planting, except I sowed the tubers into 30-litre pots during the first week of August. I wouldn’t usually recommend growing main crop potatoes in pots