Well, that’s it, I can hunt about and get all my old tatie forks together, give them a clean-up and rub some linseed oil onto the wooden shafts and put them on eBay. Because now I have taken the Johnson hoover round to the tatie patch and put it to work, I won’t need them anymore.
Top tips
I tried to use all the tips that have come in from you readers over the last few months. The first tip was to get rid of some of the top growth on the rows that a lot of you said was a real problem with blocking up the first web where it passed under the drive cross shaft.
To start with, the taties should have been lifted a month ago, but we have been so busy judging and showing sheep the spuds got overlooked. When I got to look at them under the mass of top growth, I had a shock. The red-hot weather must have suited them, plus it was quite damp when I set them, and this must have given them a good start.
Small spuds were growing out of the side of the ridge. I even
