We lifted the first of our potatoes today. It is the first time I have ever planted potatoes; we put in earlies, middle and late ones... can't remember the varieties. It is very satisfying work to dig in a potato patch! Oh boy! Growing our own food!
The soil is not great but this planting should help things along.
They were remarkably good looking, i.e. not full of slugs or diseased. And the yield was about 1/2 a bucket for one row... acceptable, I reckon.
They scrubbed up well.
I boiled them up and also boiled some frozen peas with mint from the garden.
The results: the spuds were very watery and tasted of nothing at all! Oh dear ... I am afraid the supermarket ones are a whole lot better!
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Bottom: The Potato Eaters by Vincent Van Gogh
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Bottom: The Potato Eaters by Vincent Van Gogh
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