I have complained before about the potatoes here – basically they are either red or white and that is how people chose which ones to buy. Sometimes they have a label with a name but there is nothing here to compare with the wide variety of potatoes we have in the UK – and especially the wonderful ones from Scotland or Cornwall.

This year I decided to grow my own and when I went to London in January I bought two little bags of seed potatoes. (Friends here said they just plant the ones from the greengrocers. Oh, maybe that’s why they are so tasteless?)   I got Pentland Javelin and Charlottes – playing safe!

A friend of a friend (thank you for the introduction Tiffany) agreed we could plant them on his large allotment in a town just 10 minutes drive from here.  It’s a little paradise by a small river.

 After chitting them in our workshop we planted them out on March 11th – New Moon

 We also have two sacks on the terrace to see how it works growing them in the bag method.

Yesterday we went to take a look at the allotment and it was wonderful to see the little green bushy heads popping out of the Catalan soil. We weeded and earthed up in the Spring sunshine and look forward to eating our own delicious potatoes in a few months time.
How lovely it is to be gardening – wearing any-old-clothes!  I felt as if I was getting back to normal!
You can see the weather has changed a bit since we planted them.

Look at these tulips in Catalan colours!  Growing in Marc’s lovely ‘hort’