Deshima potatoes
Both the spinach and beetroot have started to emerge. Sadly, the ailing seed potatoes had already started to decompose by the time I finished preparing their bed. I got a kilo of replacements from nearby Land Science.
They are called 出島 (デジマ or deshima). The name is taken from Dejima an artificial island in Nagasaki Bay from which the Portuguese and Dutch traded during the Edo period. They are a high yield hybrid, introduced in the early seventies, grown mainly on the islands of Kyūshū and Shikoku.
