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Saturday, 6 June 2015

First early potatoes - From spade to plate

Today was the day for the first set of first earlies. They were planted at the end of February in bags, this particular variety is Rocket or Solanum tuberosum for those who like the latin and they produce very sweet baby new potatoes. I've only pulled up one bag which had five tubers in it but we got 30 potatoes. On reflection I think five was too many for the bag because they were very tightly packed in the end so one or two were very small indeed.


The biggest one was about four inches long and the smallest was about the size of my thumb nail but most importantly, they tasted fantastic cooked with paprika like potato wedges.


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