First potato harvest
Posted under: I dug some of my first early potatoes today.
I have a very large patch devoted to potatoes this year. About 5 x 15 feet, and I’m very happy as it’s been growing successfully so far. As I’ve grown 1st Earlies, 2nd Earlies, and main crop potatoes, I’m able to enjoy a delicious crop of first-Earlies a few weeks before other crops are ready to harvest
So with fork in hand I pulled a handful of potatoes that were up near the surface. They were excellent. Fresh and yummy. I boiled the potatoes for a few minutes, and with a knob of butter sat down and enjoyed the first crop from the garden. They were wonderful.
I also planted out half of my tomato crop into the last empty raised bed in the garden. I’ve decided to try some tomatoes and the greenhouse and some outside. This way I’m hoping to get good crop.
It’s hard to describe how much nicer vegetables taste from your garden, I can’t recommend it enough.
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Thats awesome Andy! Your garden is really coming to life now and reading about your spuds has made me hungry!
Our potatoes are now starting to flower so not long now!
Nice potatoes there.
I just sacrificed one of my plants and the potatoes are about the size of a 1p coin and don’t fully resemble spuds yet.
Should really wait for the plants to flower but was intruigued,
Im guessing they need a few more weeks. It’s all new to me and I stumbled across your blog.
Will check back soon.
Good work and nice blog ! you can have a rummage around in the soil to see if the potatoes are big enough and indeed you can harvest what you need like this leaving in the small potatoes to develop further.