Nutty Spuds

Posted by @ 3:46 pm on Saturday 2nd July, 2011.
Categories: In the garden
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We've got two varieties of spuds in bags this year. For quick crops we're growing Charlotte because they're versatile, and we're growing Anya because they're unusual, tasty, relatively expensive to buy and difficult to find (Anya is grown exclusively for Sainsbury's, according to Wikipedia). For each variety we planted bags a month apart so now we've got three bags of each on the go. It's making good use of the "dead area" in front of the observatory shed:

We cropped the first bag of Charlotte three weeks ago, they were tasty but there weren't many of them, I reckon we cropped them too early. We'll leave the next two bags a couple of weeks longer.

We've been waiting for the first bag of Anya to mature for quite some time, this variety is reluctant to flower so when the stems wilted we decided that we'd waited for long enough. This morning, we cropped them:

After a good rummage around in the home-made compost, we found these little beauties:

I'm quite chuffed with them, it was a sizeable crop with hardly any effort. We'll taste-test them this evening :mrgreen:

I'll put some aside for chitting so as to be able to get another two bags on the go ASAP, hopefully we'll be able to keep the supply going for the rest of the year.

2 Responses to “Nutty Spuds”

  1. Andy Howell says:

    My spuds are a little later this year, probably two to three weeks longer than usual. Mine are in the ground and they've gone deeper than usual as well!

  2. BG! says:

    @Andy Howell - Deeper is better :mrgreen:
    What varieties are you growing, Andy?

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