The Blue Russian Potato Crop !

This is a 'before' photo taken Nov. 19 2006 ... of 'before all the hard work' of starting to dig out the Russian Blue Potatoes began.

In late August, I had put 10 wheel barrow loads of composted manure, 3 wheelbarrows of sandy soil and 7 expanded coir-bricks onto the lanky shoot growth of the potato plants. I dumped alot of soil ontop of the potato crop, and now it all had to be excavated..!

This extra soil was to build up the bed for next year's crops and to see if this would encourage more potatoes to grow from the buried shoots. It did not make any more potatoes, but at the original depth, loads of potatoes were found, see above in the next photos.