It’s a tradition in Ireland to plant potatoes around St. Patrick’s Day but what with the Beast from the East, Storm Emma and the generally cold weather, our seed potatoes have been left inside for longer than usual. Normally we give more time to getting the soil ready and planting the potatoes but this year we took the first weather window to get the chitted potatoes into the ground.

While it has been a difficult spring in the school garden, it does help the children to understand that success and failure in farming/horticulture can be very much weather dependent.

Hopefully we get a nice early potato harvest in June.