School: Garrdha (roll number 12721)
- Location:
- Garra, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Liam Ó hAnnracháin
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You are not logged in, but you are welcome to contribute a transcription anonymously. In this case, your IP address will be stored in the interest of quality control.By clicking the save button you agree that your contribution will be available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License and that a link to dúchas.ie is sufficient as attribution. - Every year we sow about two acres of potatoes. My brother prepares the ground for them and makes the drills.
When the drills are made we put out farmyard manure and throw it in little heaps along the drills. Then two or three of us go along with forks and spread it along the drills. All this time my mother has been cutting slits, that is cutting potatoes into two or three with two eyes in each out of which the gas grows. When she has enough cut we sow them, that is: We get a bucket full of slits each and spread them along the dyke within a foot of each other. Then we come along and close them with the double-plough.
Almost every household sow a small amount of early potatoes for example: Epicures and Homerilers (?).
The others are chiefly: Cerries Pink, Champions, Golden Wonders, Skerries, Donaghues, Aran Banners, Aran Chiefs, Aran Victors, Up to Dates and Sharps Express. They are dug in October with a digger and plough or a spade.
