Saturday, 23 November 2019



 "Right plant, right place" is a mantra among gardeners. Here then is a curious selection for the woodland garden: these appear to be potatoes. Actually they have materialised in the shady back half of the garden by chance. A few discarded potatoes seem to have strayed from a nearby compost heap and taken root.
 I won't seek to harvest them for eating but I'll be interested to see if they continue to grow well and flower. Mysteriously they seem a good deal more vigorous than the crop I had on the allotment last year despite being the wrong plant in the wrong place at the wrong time of year!