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I'm very excited - came back from a few days away and decided to dig up a First Early to see if there were any potatoes yet - and guess what! There were Real Potatoes under there! Bright red ones - some of them a reasonable size even!! I took them home and we ate them for tea. How good is that? I never really thought anything would grow. [Except mare's tails, of course.]

Congratulations October, there is nowt to beat the tast of home grown tatties. The best way to eat them is on the plot.

Get a gas stove and a steamer and boil some new tatties and steam some Courgettes, Onion & cabbage & eat with loads of fresh ground black pepper & about 1/2lb of butter - I never said it was healthy just the best

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Brilliant October. And off course things will grow. Just try stopping them. Enjoy the rest of your crops.

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Well done October! Its a fanastic feeling isn't it, eating your first crop? It just gets better and better! Bernie

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We had our first batch of 'Charlottes' today, ooh yummy.

Aw October! You made me smile - in a nice sort of way. You can't beat the feeling can you, and I think there's something extra special about tatties, cos you don't know what you're gonna get til you start having a dig or poke around in there.
Well done you! Here's to many more successes in the garden!

I had mine yesterday too! Made a potato salad with chopped grilled gammon and spring onions - home grown - there's nothing quite like it....oh yes, and some home grown lettuce and radishes too......yum! yum!

When did you plant them, October? And are they in open ground or in buckets under cover? Need to know cos I really want to have a look at mine but I'm pretty sure they're not ready yet. Well done though, I hope you enjoyed them.

Thank you all for sharing my excitement over the potatoes!

Rusty Lady, I put in the red Duke of Yorks on 31st March, in the open ground, so they have had a couple of months. They already had very long shoots on them when I got them though. And there were not that many potatoes on each plant - I just dug up two plants and there were almost enough for hubby and I to have for tea. [Enough if it had been two ladies!] I am going to leave them another week to see if they have more or bigger ones - I'm not sure how many to expect on each plant anyway.

Thanks to Nick and Honestveg for the recipe ideas - sounds great! My daughter, who shares the plot with me, has what looks like a courgette on the plant - about two inches long with what seems to be the start of a flower on the end, so we may get some of those too!

Oh, you will, you will! In bucket loads! To get a decent boiling off each potato plant you really need to wait 3 full months - and it's surprising what weight they put on in the last month (a bit like pregnancy then!)

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Well done October!! Hope you get lots more potatoes and other crops too!