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23 Jan 2008Harvesting Potato Tire Towers Harvesting and 'round the back gardenWe caught the end of a cyclone earlier this week. A few plants got damaged including my potatoes. They got thrashed by the wind so I decided it was time to harvest them anyway. I got a total of 8kg of spuds. Less than I had hoped for but the size of them was impressive, There were several potatoe...Storms
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16 Dec 2007Good Progress Potato Tire Towers and 'round the back garden
the potato plants are up to my chest now. All are flowering. I’m going to knock over one tower in about a week and use the tires to start another crop.
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16 Dec 2007The Flowers 1 2 Potato Tire Towers and 'round the back garden
Just posting a closeup of the flowers. I ate some new potatoes that I dug by hand from the front garden last night. Smothered in melted butter just boiled with their skin on… yum.
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16 Dec 2007Strange bug 1 Potato Tire Towers and 'round the back garden
I photographed this strange looking flying insect at rest in my potato plants this evening.

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