Planting Spuds

With British Summer Time and lighter nights comes gardening. On the first day of daylight savings, we set about to plant potatos, onion sets and to relocate tayberries. With regards to the potatoes, we planted 8 x 18m long rows. Since the garden was larger than average, we used a 2-Row 1960's David Brown Potato Planter pulled behind a Ferguson 35, 3-cylinder diesel tractor. Two of us sat on the back feeding a potato down the shute everytime the bell tinged as the tractor moved slowly forward. Many moons ago, my father used one of these for planting fields of potatoes - he advised me that they would be able to do "20 acres in a day".