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Growing => Vegetables => Topic started by: suziequeue on January 26, 2014, 01:16:17 pm

Title: Charlotte new potatoes harvested today :-)
Post by: suziequeue on January 26, 2014, 01:16:17 pm

Here are some Charlotte baby new potatoes that we harvested for lunch today. ;D ;D

We grew them in old feed sacks in the summer and when the hallums started to die back, cut them down and moved the sacks to the composting toilet where they have been sitting in silence ever since.

Today we up-ended the sack in a wheelbarrow and had a bran-tub finding all these little treasures which have stored perfectly for six months.

Very pleased and would thoroughly recommend it :excited: :excited:

Title: Re: Charlotte new potatoes harvested today :-)
Post by: Q on January 26, 2014, 02:40:56 pm

Good for you!  I love little bonuses like that.  :thumbsup:

Title: Re: Charlotte new potatoes harvested today :-)
Post by: suziequeue on January 26, 2014, 03:55:27 pm

I learnt it all on here too which is nice  ;D

Title: Re: Charlotte new potatoes harvested today :-)
Post by: Mammyshaz on January 26, 2014, 05:31:49 pm

Wow, a fab find. Mine were too wet last year when I tried it, and rotted  :'(

Title: Re: Charlotte new potatoes harvested today :-)
Post by: Anke on January 27, 2014, 04:45:39 pm

Well our attempts to grow in muck in old feed sacks completely failed last summer. I think a combination of it being too dry and mice/vole snack attacks was to blame...

But I found a dinner's worth of Charlotte potatoes in a bed that had them in three years previously when I dug it over in November...

Title: Re: Charlotte new potatoes harvested today :-)
Post by: Lesley Silvester on January 27, 2014, 11:44:37 pm

I've never been very successful at growing potatoes in containers of any sort. Don't know why.