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Tatties and onions

It’s been such a changeable summer with some very hot and dry days but a lot of very wet and stormy ones. With the rain comes SLUGS! They started munching trough the onions so I have had to harvest what was left early. I put the worst of them in the fridge to use up and only got one basket of onions to store for the winter, very disappointing.

I have been harvesting the first early potatoes, again early due to the slugs, so far not too much damage underneath but the tops were totally eaten away!

A nice bundle from my first dig.
Total from the bed. I weeded it and put on a layer of compost.
These are the ones I stuck with the fork, I’ll eat them first.
Cleaned up.
These are the ones with damage or are green which I cleaned, boiled up and fed to the chickens.
I’m very happy how much the potatoes cleaned up the soil, next year I will plant onions here. But I will have to do something about the grass around the beds, I was thinking of making a path out of slabs if I can pick some up at the recycling centre.

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