Gardening – Page 25 – Beautiful Chaos

Does it make sense to still plant potatoes? (07.06.2022)

I still had a potato variety left in my storage from last year, nicely sprouted and even with roots. I sorted out the best looking and found some space to plant them.

My Moutarde Rouge Mentis flowers very quickly

What do I do wrong??

After sprouting and growing to a usable size the flower stem of the Moutarde Rouge Mentis (a leaf mustard variety) is also already there. I can only pick leaves once or twice before it flowers. To what I have read online I should not pick leaves after flowering any more, because they turn bitter. Am I doing some thing wrong, or does this variety just bloom very quickly? The seeding package states that I can sow and harvest the Moutarde Rouge Mentis al season long.

I will let the Moutarde Rouge Mentis bloom and hope I can harvest seed from it.

Berry bushes, old potatoes and Garden pictures

Planting berry bushes, planting old sprouted potatoes on straw bales and just nice pictures from the garden

Finally we got to it to plant out currants and raspberries. They already show the start of the fruits and we have for joy for the tasty fruits that are growing.

The old potatoes from last year are sprouting in there storage.

I found it a shame to trough them away, so I planted some of them. Beside the hill beds we have a row of straw bales as wind protection. These are already rotting a little on the inside, so we put some soil on there to plant the potatoes in. I also gave the potatoes some cow manure in form of pellets and covered them with some hay. Let’s see what that does this season, because I already saw that the straw bales are collapsing a little bit.