09:28 EDT, 22 February 2021
Jersey potato farmers fly in workers from the Philippines to stop crops rotting in the fields and plug gap left by Romanian and Polish migrants after Brexit
Workers from the Philippines have been recruited to work on farms in Jersey to plug the gap left in the wake of Brexit.
Growers had feared that Jersey Royal potatoes would be left to rot in the fields after farm workers, many of whom were Polish, abandoned the island after the EU referendum.
Farmers say the void has finally been filled by Filipino workers who were keeping the farming industry going on the Channel Island.
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How to grow early variety potatoes that will provide a crop until Christmas Now is the time to be buying your seed potatoes – allow me to recommend a few. I was buttonholed by a gardening neighbour recently. He had read my recommendation of the old potato variety Sharpe’s Express. His first query related to my having referred to it as an “early variety”. I suppose it is fairly late as early varieties go, but what puzzled my friend even more was that I said it will remain in the ground, or in storage after lifting, something he imagined was only true of a maincrop variety.
SO, how many different types of potato do you reckon are grown around this world of ours? And just what proportion of them can you buy in the shops? The answer to the former is more than 500. And to the latter? About 15. That is one of the powerful arguments for growing your own. The others, of course, are taste and efficacy knowing that those fresh potatoes came from your own hand, grown in your own, good, earth. I can’t believe that nearly a year has spun by since I wrote my last piece extolling the virtues of growing your own spuds, just a couple of months before we were trapped by Lockdown 1 in Nepal. With increasing age, time spins ever faster but certain imperatives will remain until I am too old to raise a spade.