June is one of the most productive times on the allotment, you can see my haul from today's foraging.
Bon appetite!Wednesday, June 17, 2009
First New Potatoes
Another yardstick moment in the gardening calendar is the date you dig up your first new potatoes of the year. These International Kidney were planted in a compost bag in the greenhouse, especially for an early crop. These are quite a bit bigger than I had expected, so I will give my outdoor crop an exploratory dig tomorrow.
June is one of the most productive times on the allotment, you can see my haul from today's foraging.
Bon appetite!
June is one of the most productive times on the allotment, you can see my haul from today's foraging. Bon appetite!
Congrats on your harvest!
ReplyDeleteI'm itching to dig up some new potatoes but the people at the big house are away at present so I can't really justify it. Yours look real beauties. Bob
ReplyDeleteYum. Interesting that your garden zone must be similar to ours here in the US. I have an English friend who was trying to get me to check my potatoes. I didn't find such nice fat ones, but I was afraid to dig around too much. He was telling me how he remembered buying yummy new potatoes in British markets.
ReplyDeleteThose new potatoes look superior! Actually, the whole daily harvest looks quite yum! Good work Matron.
ReplyDeleteSuch unusual potatoes. Looks like you had a very healthy dinner. I'm jealous.
ReplyDeleteThose spuds look great. The ones I planted in compost bags are up and ready for some so called hilling. I wish I clued in earlier so I had some early spuds right now. Good thing there is always next year.
ReplyDeleteIt all looks so healthy and delicious! Ooh, raspberries, I'm jealous. Not sure I will get any this year on the new plants, plus they are looking distressed due to the month of no rain here. I have to read up on what to do with the potatoes once they flower, I am starting to notice blooms and am hoping they will have set some nice spuds! Do you plant more now for fall harvest??
ReplyDeleteKaren - There are a range of potatoes here from first earlies which take the least time to mature, to late maincrop which harvest around September/October. We don't ususally plant a second crop in the UK climate, but there is a way to try to grow some new potatoes for Christmas dinner! I might give that a try this year!
ReplyDeleteThe difference in our temperatures from North to South is evident here. I don't even have flowers on my courgettes yet!
ReplyDeleteI've tried the Christmas potatoes. One year it was brilliant. The next we had a muggy autumn and blight struck. It's a chance you have to be prepared to take. When it works though, it's wonderful!
You've got quite a dinner there Matron - you must be chuffed!
ReplyDeleteFab potatoes! I am impatient for mine to be ready. Yours look great.
ReplyDeleteI love this time of year. At every trip to my plot there is a little more harvest to bring home, and plenty still to come.
Everything looks delicious. I'm wondering if we may have some potatoes ready to dig, although they probably won't look as nice as yours.
ReplyDeleteYou made my Friday, Matron! I will now sit here at my desk and type away while thinking of the luxurious meal you must have enjoyed yesterday!
ReplyDeleteI am hoping to get my first lot of harvest tomorrow, I can't wait! but I think I may be a while away from the courgette.
ReplyDeleteWhat the purple veg beneth the broad bean, are they purple mangetout?
Ah, just scanned down your blog page and noted that they are purple podded pea. How did they taste? Did they turn back to green on cooking?
ReplyDeleteMangocheeks (love that name!) - The peas inside the pod are green! It is only the pod that is purple!
ReplyDeleteThe day's foraging yielded this?! I'm jealous!! What a spread! They all look so delicious!
ReplyDeleteThank you for visiting my blog and I loved to see your comment. Will be back again. happy gardening!
I still have a way to go before I can harvest potatoes. We did get strawberries. They are first year plants. We've tried to remove all blossoms.
ReplyDeleteThe swiss chard is wonderful. I can't wait for the zucchini. Our weather is not suitable for it yet. Lots of leaf and no blossom.
Raspberries are small and green.