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    Hi All,

    Last night I cooked our very first home grown new potatoes. The tasted amazing, absolutely amazing!! There is no better feeling than heading into the garden to dig and pick veggies for lunch/dinner.

  • #2
    Wow - congrats to you! Mine are still small plants - but you have given me hope!!

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    • #3
      I've just dug my first Lady Chrystl spuds for tea tonight

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      • #4
        I planted my tubers late Feb early March - just gutted I didn't plant more. It's my first time growing potatoes so decided to start small.

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        • #5
          Mine were Lady Chrystl too and they were amazing - almost butter like. I steamed them and didn't add any seasoning and they were amazing. I'll stop now as I think I'm getting a bit carried away!

          It's so worth growing your own. Didn't think you would taste the difference much with potatoes but boy was I wrong!
          Last edited by veggiemad; 07-06-2012, 10:59 AM.

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          • #6
            Originally posted by veggiemad View Post
            It's so worth growing your own. Didn't think you would taste the difference much with potatoes but boy was I wrong!
            You'll find it's not just spuds that will have a great taste. I found that broad beans and boiled cabbage have great flavor as well. Who would have known.
            Sometimes you just have to scratch that itch and get dirt under your finger nails.

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            • #7
              Wow! I was a couple of weeks late putting them in this year, then they took an ...age... to come up. Not sure when to dig them up, but a month at least.

              As you say, home grown spuds are ace.
              Garden Grower
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              • #8
                Originally posted by Dead Dogs View Post
                You'll find it's not just spuds that will have a great taste. I found that broad beans and boiled cabbage have great flavor as well. Who would have known.
                And even Sprout haters soon find out the fresh picked and cooked sprouts are pure... mmmmmmmm
                Its Grand to be Daft...

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                • #9
                  no sign of flowers yet on my earlies - might have to have a root about at the weekend to see if there are any signs of life! think everything is a bit late this year (at least here in Bournemouth!)

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                  • #10
                    I didn't have any flowers on mine, but they've been in 12 weeks - so it was about time they were ready

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                    • #11
                      Isn't it true that not all varieties flower before they're ready? Or am I wrong?
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                      • #12
                        I'm having a furtle under my potatoes later on today and I really hope they're going to ready.
                        Location....East Midlands.

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                        • #13
                          No MTF your are quite right. LadyC for one are ready before they flower usually at their best at 12 to 14 weeks.

                          However if you have enough to leave in the ground you will find they make fantastic bakers/chippers at about 18 weeks.

                          Colin
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                          • #14
                            I'm determined mine will form part of a meal this year. Last year we kept cooking them, leaving them on the side in the kitchen and they disappeared, very, very quickly.
                            Granny on the Game in Sheffield

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                            • #15
                              Mine have produced flowers but they haven't opened yet, can't be long now I hope! This is my first year of growing potatoes and I am very hopeful
                              Last edited by Gemmalaveen; 07-06-2012, 04:24 PM.
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