First Potato!

Our very first Red Duke of York!

We have a potato! YES!

This morning Emily was looking at the potato plants in the containers and asking when they'd be ready. So I decided to have a furtle about in the Red Duke of Yorks. After a little blind searching this is what I came out with! I was well chuffed! Look at the great colour. Although Emily doesn't look too sure about it.

Em's wondering how it'll feed our family of four

We simply boiled it all on its lonesome (skin on of course) and ate it with some butter on it. It tasted great and everyone liked it. We might get some more up for tomorrow's evening meal.

I'm not sure what makes it so satisfying about growing potatoes. Maybe it's the same with other root vegetables. I think it's the fact that you are not certain you'll get anything until you start digging. With the regular vegetables that grow above ground you can see them getting a little bit bigger every day. But potatoes are different. It's like setting them off on autopilot when you plant the original tuber and hope that they do what they're supposed to do by the time you come to dig them up.