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Potato Chitting. A method of giving your early potato crop a head start by allowing them to sprout roots before planting.

Potato Chitting. A method of giving your early potato crop a head start by allowing them to sprout roots before planting.

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Planting First Early Potatoes

Planting First Early Potatoes

It’s been a working week since Easter Monday which means that’s been five days since my first early potatoes went into the bags that will be their home until Summer. At the minute they are in our garden at home as I am a bit worried that the weather is still a bit inhospitable for tiny spuds. Our garden at home is a yard that is almost entirely enclosed by walls, shrubbery and fences therefore…

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The Tragic Disappearance of All Known Stuff

The Tragic Disappearance of All Known Stuff

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Worsted, Tweed, Galician calicos, reamed

cotton screed, diaphanous silks, dour,

coarse linens, Chinese screen tableaux

of mislaid epochs, safe and unsafe tapestries,

sad stacked in the old mead hall, the conference centre,

the hubristic hub of soft arrogance now

Abandoned.

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The once sure folk have fled, melted and mutated,

The meek ones headed for the hills, they crouch

and mooch grumpy,…

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