Donal Hickey: Is there a spud-planting deadline?

Teagasc advises to sow early spuds in March, with the main crop sown from mid-March to May

It’s time to get gardening, hoping that the ground has dried after all the rain. And what better occasion than this bank-holiday-weekend. Since the covid epidemic, we’re told, more people have taken up, or resumed, gardening, with physical and mental health benefits.

St Patrick’s Day has traditionally been seen as the middle day of spring, with hopes of better weather and improved growing conditions afterwards.