Site trials
Solanum tuberosum
Almond potatoes from Lappland,
Finland, grown in London
Lapin Puikula perunaa, Puikula
Mandelpotatis från Lappland.
Potatoes tested on all beds and the 12 small beds
consolidated into 6 large beds for crop rotation.
| Spring 2002 |
Potatoes, Desiree |
Potatoes, Lapp |
| Spring 2002 |
Potatoes, Charlotte,
Nicola |
Potatoes, Lapp |
| Spring 2002 |
Potatoes, Romano |
Potatoes, Lapp |
Organic environment
Great Nicola and Charlotte salad potatoes, improved
Lapp variety. Seed grown and plants set out. Original Lapptop
potato harvested!
Lapp potato fruit seeds, grown in seed tray and planted
out.
Lapp potato tubers harvested from the seedlings. Solanum tuberosum Lapptop.
A potato store built of earth bricks.
Overwintering onions and brassicas,
before the Spring potato sowing.
Planning
for 2003
| 2003 Rotation
plan, clockwise |
Potatoes |
6 October 2002
Onions
|
| 2002-2003 |
Pak Choi,
3 October 2002
|
Brassicas
5 Oct, seedlings showing
|
| 6
Oct 2002-2003 |
September 2002,
Onion sets
|
Green manure, turnips, pak choi.
(Potatoes 2003)
|
The rotation is established.
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