I've been mainly focussing on just tidying up the allotment and getting it ready for next year this week, but my minor OCD got in the way of my cunning plan to leave my potatoes in one of the beds until I'd need them in a couple of weeks.
You see I'd tidied up one bed, using string to edge it, and then moved onto the next where I'd intended to tidy up the back half that had little in and then leave the bottom half which had the potatoes in until I needed them.
And then move onto bed three for tidying. The problem I had with this idea is that I'd have need to move my strings over from the previous bed before finishing off the edges of that bed, so I decided to just stick with bed two and harvest the damn potatoes.
Turned out this was a good idea as the slugs had had their way with some of them, but overall not a bad harvest, at least for the two further rows I'd decided to put in.....
Honestly that will last me about a month, I don't eat that many potatoes (I generally prefer rice!)
I did realise one problem was FORKING through the potatoes, that's the downside of letting the weeds take over and then clearing the brush and having no idea where I'd put the damn things, honestly about 1/3rd perfectly good potatoes have been split by my fork, damn!
And a nice clear bed, getting there...
Potatoes do loosen up the soil nicely, which TBH is why I grow them every year, and this bed is feeling ready to have something put in it.
I'm not super proud of the edges, they aren't as straight as I'd like, but I guess that's just nature for you, and my laziness, but things will still grow, nature doesn't like straight lines anyway!