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School: Knockanargan, Dunlavin

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Knockanarrigan, Co. Wicklow
Teacher:
Annie Draper
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0916, Page 090

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  1. The Potato Crop (continued)

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    The growing crop has to receive care or it will not yield well.
    First they are moulded up with the plough.
    This is done directly the green sprouts appear over the ground.
    Then they get another moulding when the blossom appears.
    They are also sprayed with the following mixture to keep the stalk from getting withered and to make the potatoes grow as long as possible.
    The mixture is, - bluestone and washing soda mixed together with water and poured on the stalks with and agricultural sprayer.
    The old people used to always boil the new potatoes for the first time on the 15th July.
    The potatoes are dug with a potato digger in October or November.
    Here the neighbours help again.
    They pick the potatoes after the digger
    (continues on next page)
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. economic activities
        1. agriculture (~2,659)
          1. potatoes (~2,701)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Susan Case
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Brittas, Co. Wicklow