This is the raised bed where some of my carrots were grown, I m now using the bed to store some of my kerrs pinks. These potatoes will be used long after my other potatoes ,which are stored in a root cellar in hessian sacks.This method of storing potatoes is called ,a pit ,or a bing. The straw is used as an insulator,and also to allow air into and out of the bing.Come next April ,i ll be digging these up, hopefully they ll take me through to the first earlies.

Some of the onions and carrots all ready for winter storage.

To day i lifted my Kerr's Pinks, Arran Victories and Golden Wonders before winter , using begins.One thing i won t be doing next year ,is ,to use horse manure. The horse manure has brought a lot of weeds onto the ground and also a lot of snails. Next move is the airing and drying the potatoes for their winter storage.Out of approx 200 seed potatoes ,i manage to have 7 barrow fulls of keepers and 2 of rot and snail damage. I still have to lift my Sarpo Mira potatoes.