growyourown &mdash; Gerrit Niezen https://gerritniezen.com/tag:growyourown Maker of open-source software and hardware. Mon, 20 Apr 2026 13:19:20 +0000 https://i.snap.as/aMPXpIot.png growyourown &mdash; Gerrit Niezen https://gerritniezen.com/tag:growyourown Planting potatoes https://gerritniezen.com/planting-potatoes?pk_campaign=rss-feed <![CDATA[For Valentine's Day I received two potato planter bags. We bought some seed potatoes and they have been sitting in an egg carton on our kitchen windowsill for the past two weeks. I finally got around to planting them this past weekend. I first filled around a third of the bag with compost, then placed in the five chitted seed potatoes, and covered it in another 10 cm or so layer of compost. I then watered it really well using some rain water that I found in a container in the back yard. Now I just have to wait until the first shoots start to appear, and then cover them with compost again. This is called "earthing up" the potatoes. GrowYourOwn iComment on this post/i div id="cusdis_thread"/div]]> For Valentine's Day I received two potato planter bags. We bought some seed potatoes and they have been sitting in an egg carton on our kitchen windowsill for the past two weeks. I finally got around to planting them this past weekend.

I first filled around a third of the bag with compost, then placed in the five chitted seed potatoes, and covered it in another 10 cm or so layer of compost. I then watered it really well using some rain water that I found in a container in the back yard.

Now I just have to wait until the first shoots start to appear, and then cover them with compost again. This is called “earthing up” the potatoes.

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