This weekend me and Mr.Bee visited a local potato day 🙂 Who’d have thought there were so many different varieties of spuds? We were spoilt for choice really! Armed with a list of the potatoes on offer, we walked around with our box ready to fill up. There were herbs, vegetable seeds, fruit trees and bushes, garlic, and summer bulbs on offer. It was great! We even bumped into our friends 🙂
We don’t plan on having too many rows of spuds this year, just enough to get us by. We’ve chosen our favourites – marfona (second early) keeping our fingers crossed they do better this year. We had a problem with stinky, disgusting black leg which wiped most of them out – pretty gutted about that! For our second choice, we wanted to try something different, so we picked rooster (main crop) potatoes too 😀
It was such a well organised event, I cant wait to go back next year! 😀 For now, our little seed potatoes are sat happily in their egg boxes on the kitchen windowsill. Best get the plot ready and get the trenches dug and sprinkle the muck in! 😀
What potatoes are you growing this year?
Lottie Land Girl Kaz xx
Lottie Land Girl 
Ooo, we are all synchronised. The veggie vibes must be flowing strongly in the ether. I set mine out in egg boxes on Monday. Some Pentland Javelin which I snapped up in Poundland last month. I’m just going to grow them in sacks. (Old compost sacks from last year.) They already had 1″ shoots on them when I got them out of the bag so I think they’ll not be in the egg boxes for long. Today I’m starting some broad beans in loo rolls and putting in my order for seeds.
Have you ever tried pink fur apples?
Hi Philip no I’ve not? We don’t have any fruit trees on our plot, it’s not really big enough, do you?
Apologies, not realised they were a type of spud! Dirrr! What are they like, any good?
They look very odd, very knobbly but they have a lovely flavour – rather how I remember new potatoes used to taste. I did once grow them and didn’t get a very good yield but they tasted good. Round here we can sometimes get them in local veg shops. If you ever see them I recommend you try them!
Thanks for the heads up Philip, I’ve seen a picture of them, they do look peculiar! Will definitely try them though if I see any! 😀
I’m growing Marfona again this year because they were excellent last year. I’ll be interested to see how your roosters turn out.