Jersey Royals growing well - First day out for the potato planters - cover crop update

Our indoor Jersey Royals are growing well and we’re passing our tracked crawler to re work the ridges. This helps control the weeds and will hopefully reduce greening of the tubers when we come to harvest too.
The dry weathers allowed us to start with our potato planters the Midema belt planter and Grimme cup planter both planting English salad varieties.
Covering of the polythene continues and we look back to see how well the Italian rye grass cover crop has done sown back in August.
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[@SNIFFmyDIFF255]

Done a bit with a belt planter ,we quickly learned to split grade the potato seed before hand ,extra cost but helped with forward speed and better spacing ,Iam from Herefordshie area uk,love the videos and how you use different ideas,Ps my dad planted maris bard outdoors on valentines day once ,thats unusual for us,keep up the great vids

[@garytherin5414]

Another interesting & educational clip young Phil 👍

[@whathasxgottodowithit3919.]

Great video, thank you for posting, one of my jobs as a fifteen years old was knocking down the ridges with a mounted curved three row potato harrow, and ridging up again all with a Ferguson TEF 20 usually once a week, it saved using a gang with hoes for weed control. If frost looked likely we would ridge up again!

[@darrenlindup3086]

I’ve worked with potatoes planting harvesting and all in between I can’t get over how little soil you cover them with compared too here . I had a week in jersey last august and toured a few farms . Would have been interesting to meet you ..

[@markyoull6744]

great stuff

[@davidfoster-smith211]

Very interesting video. Do you add organic fertilisers during the crop cycle? eg bonemeal; seaweed; comfrey leaf mould. What potato seed varieties are you developing for the future and how?

[@cleasberg3461]

nice soil use to more sandy one

[@johnmeredith4174]

Surprisingly amount of manual labour, couldnt afford the wages here in Australia never mind trying to find the man power

[@AlfredJamesBent]

At what point do you take the plastic off the potatoes, it will stop them growing as the plants get bigger.

[@cleasberg3461]

no straw berry farming year round no ??????

[@daveklein2826]

This is a potato video...... DUH

[@cleasberg3461]

yes for me its shallow planting but 3 month crop ???????