Turning a Tatty Patch into a Tattie Patch
Oct 11th, 2009 by SpinningGill
Back in April I decided to experiment with making a veggie patch (a tattie patch to be precise) with the help of some cardboard and muck.
At the start.
First, I laid out some old planks of wood to define the size of the bed. Tan helped!
Cardboard and muck
Then I laid out a load of old cardboard boxes, weighing them down with small piles of muck to stop them blowing away.
The next stage
Having made certain that none of the cardboard was going to go AWOL I set to with the barrow and muck fork and covered the whole area with a load of muck.
And the next...
Once I was satisfied that there was a good layer of muck, I started covering that with top soil that had been saved when we were digging a trench. This is the half-covered bed.
Completion!
It took a surprising amount of topsoil to cover the whole thing, but was done eventually!
Come October, this was the result:
Half a hundredweight of tatties!
Meanwhile, underneath the growing potatoes, the cardboard had rotted away, leaving just a few pieces of tape to be dug up when I dug up the potatoes.