Thursday 4 June 2009

Our first potatoes of the year!

We thought we'd take a chance and dig up some potatoes to see how they were doing. They'd flowered and were looking ready, and so out came the fork...


Luckily all wasn't in vain - there were a few decent sized potatoes and some wee 'uns also:


But, the ultimate test has to be how they taste, and it's fair to say that these were the most delicious, melt-in-the-mouth potatoes we've both ever tasted! They were earlies - Colleen variety - make sure you buy them next year!

Simply boil in a little bit of water with a few sprigs of mint, drain, add a little pepper and a knob of butter, and enjoy!

2 comments:

  1. Wow, they sound fantastic. Hope ours are as good. The plants are certainly looking well. Weather permitting, we intend to spend all day saturday on the allotment!

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  2. Well, hope you had nice weather. At last we've got some much needed rain today! Have had 3 lots of potatoes now, though we prob should have left them a bit longer for the littlies to get a bit bigger. So tasty though!

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