Taties

Today we harvested our second box of normal potatoes. It yielded ten, 4 medium sized ones and 6 small which can be boiled and mashed. We thought the yield from the other box was better, but that box got more sunshine and seemed to get off to a better start generally. Next year we'll plant earlier in the year and lower down in the boxes and then we'll get more.

We also turned out the large pot I have been growing sweet potato vines in. The edible sort, of course. I wasn't really sure that we would get anything, because it's not a really huge pot - maybe 8 kg - and I left the vines on the original potato so it was taking up quite some space in the top there. However, the potatoes clearly wanted to grow. We got several carrot-sized ones (see photo), and about a dozen very small long ones - about a cm in diametre. I don't know whether these will be edible or not, obviously they won't bake but we could boil and mash them like carrots. (Only they're not as big as carrots. Like baby carrots I guess). In any case they have to cure for a couple of weeks to let the starch convert to sugar, and hopefully by the time they've done that we will have found out if they are safe to eat.

Again, next year we will plant much earlier - like several months earlier - and maybe use a larger box.