Potatoes!

On Saturday and with great anticipation Emily and I picked the two Red Duke of Yorks that had been growing well in an old recycling container on our patio. We turned it out and started rummaging through the compost expecting a bumper crop of spuds.
This is what we managed to get from two plants that had been growing since early April:

Red Duke of Yorks from two plants

In order to supplement the potatoes for the evening meal Em and I then picked the broad beans that were ready. It's probably a reasonable amount from four dwarf Sutton plants.

We picked all the broad beans that were ready

Once picked Em and her granddad set about shelling them. We offered the bean cases to Patch the guinea pig but, understandably, she turned her nose up at them!

Emily and her granddad shelling beans

One benefit of growing potatoes in containers is that they come out of compost a lot cleaner than out of the soil. Speaking of soil, I did plant one Red Duke of York down in the potato patch at the end of the garden. Emily and I dug up that plant but found nothing apart from one tiny little tuber. Anyway, after a nice cleanup the potatoes were ready for their weigh-in. They came in at 862g which is 1lb 14oz in old money. With the potato I snaffled a couple of weeks earlier, I reckon that's 2lb of spuds, 1lb per plant. I don't know how good that is. It doesn't sound a lot and I was expecting more. Maybe I should have watered more.

Beans and Pots all cleaned up and ready for the weigh in

So we enjoyed the potatoes and broad beans with some gammon and parsley sauce, eaten al fresco. Beautiful.