LOOK!!! LOOK!!! Look what we've grown...

It's getting to that time of year when my feed gets taken over by the things I've grown in my garden. So I do apologise if you're not a big fan of gardening, family time and my life 😂

As always, my trusted partner in crime "1/2pint" was there to lend a helping hand, even if he did end up spending more time digging in the dirt than helping.

OK, let's start at the beginning..... For ease and more importantly space, I grow my potatoes in grow bags. They are cheap enough to buy, small enough to move around (once full), yet large enough to harvest a decent size crop per bag.

Now I don't know if this little trick works, or if I've just been doing it for no reason, but once the potatoes have flowered and I know the potatoes are growing, I cut back the large foliage. I'm sure I heard an old wives-tale about this forcing the plant in to producing larger spuds.... True/false??? If you know please share!

So my little semi-naked helper was there ready to lend a hand and we got straight in.

Since the majority of the foliage was already cut back, it was easy enough to start at the top and work our way through the soil.

By loosening up the soil, its easy enough to pull the roots straight up and harvest any spuds still atta he'd to the main plant.

The grow bags have a nice feature, where you can open a side pocket and get direct access to the potatoes in situe.

Another great thing about getting 1/2pint to help is that he has no fear of things with more than 2 legs. I'm fact it's a hard job trying to stop him hurting the poor creatures because all he wants to do is pick them up and show them to his mother (who's not a big fan of creepy crawleys).

Plus it's always nice to see them in your soil -

HEALTHY BUGS = HEALTHY SOIL

So if you see lots of them, you know your soil is in good condition.

That's not a bad crop, but it's not great either. This bag contained only 2 "seed" potatoes, so it's not a bad return. Potatoes are thirst little things and I probably didn't water enough these last 2 weeks to really get the amount of tubors I would have liked. I saw a lot of little spuds (less than 10mm), which tells me I either pulled too soon or didn't water enough.

So I'll give the next sack an extra week and make sure I keep them topped with water up daily.

These are my own seed potatoes, kept from store bought spuds.

Now this sack is empty and ready to go again, I'll increase the seeds from 2 to 5 and hopefully get a better crop at the end of the summer.

Time to cover these, water them and hope they grow!!

I hope that didn't bore you too much?? I'm guessing if you made it this far, you found it an OK read.

I'm always happy to share are hints/tips, so if you want to know anything please ASK. If you've got any tips please feel free to let me know below. I'm always happy to take new things on board.