An exciting day at Norwich House… my favourite time in the garden finally arrives! Digging potatoes!
The poor old plants were very ready to come out.
Happily we had another lovely sunny day today, so we put on our gardening clothes and hats and got to it!
We were digging up so many huge sized spuds!
Every minute or so we’d stop to show each other the size of the potato we just found! 😀
The biggest one weighed in at just over half a kilo!! (maybe not the one pictured…)
We actually had to make two barrow trips to the front lawn as there wasn’t enough space in it to fit them all at once!
My almost non-existent OCD kicked in and we sorted the potatoes by size. This year we had an ‘Extra Large’ category and a ‘chook’ category (anything too small or green or fiddly to bother cooking so will eventually be chucked in a pot to cook for the chickens!)
Jeff wanted to weigh them this season so we dragged out a duffle bag and the luggage scale.
We dug up 90kgs (just a shade under 200lb)!!
Think thats enough??
Anyway, we had a lot of fun and got fantastically dirty!
We’ve boxed them all up and stored them in the shed. I have a small box in the pantry for use right now.
In other gardening news…
Beau put all these tomatoes in the freezer for us while we were away! The day after we arrived home I did a round of the garden to pick some more.
Excited to see some of my yellow tomatoes finally ripening!
The new lettuce patch is doing nicely.
The lettuce in the straw bale is looking rather tragic!! Half died, but some are hanging in there. Will give more attention to them!!
Something for dinner last night.
And a pear!!
The cow-ravaged corn patch (whats left of it) is going well. The cobs haven’t filled out yet but we are just finishing off the last lot so these will be ready to go soon! Happy I got the timing right!
Three new cucumbers!
A rock melon!! I’ve not had success yet so fingers crossed for this fellow.
Passionfruit keep falling too! Lovely!
Plenty of cherry tomatoes on the self seeded plants at the back of the hothouse. I got around to picking these this afternoon!
Yesterdays basket of fresh stuff!
I love weird carrots! This one was fab!
I did the rounds and picked about 8kgs of tomatoes (17lb) a few more cobs of corn, found some runaway zucchinis, more passionfruit and some herbs.
Dinner tonight was about 90% home grown. I stuffed some tomatoes tonight and we ate a scandalous amount of corn!!
Life’s pretty good eh?
Hope you have a wonderful weekend planned!
Cheers!
Lisa,
I am SO jealous of your potatoes!! What a haul. You sure worked hard after just getting home from your trip. You have so much yummy food from your garden. In the US we are heading to spring, so the opposite of you.
Can you please talk about the passion fruit and how you eat them, perhaps show one cut up. This is new to me. You talk about them often.
Welcome back. For a vitamin-deficiency gal you sure have a lot of energy and get a lot done in a day. I’m in awe of you.
Thank you,
Janet
Hi Janet!! I am loving my potatoes lol – going to have to do more hiking so I can keep scoffing them!
Re passionfruit! Certainly will! I am so happy to have so many now. I’ll aim at doing some photos and explanations soon. Basically thought I like to just cut in half and scoop the flesh and seeds out with a spoon and gulp! Mind you – they are excellent over ice cream! 🙂 Good times!!
Enjoy moving back into spring and ‘starting over’ again! Its a lovely time of the year. xx
Jeff looks like he’s been playing in mud you may have to hose him down haha. Man o man what a crop of. SPUDS. know what you’ll be eating for some time. LUCKY YOU!!!and what a whopsy doodle carrot!!All your hard work is sure paying off. Enjoy and thanks for showing us your DELIGHTS!! Love from Georgia
Haha!! Yes… we needed a decent scrubbing by the time we were finished! So happy to have such a great stash of spuds – and a new garden space for some winter veggies??? I can plan but lets see if that comes to fruition!! 😀
Have a lovely day!
Looking good! What variety are the potatoes? Nearly time to put mine in…
These are Dutch Cream. I have tried one or two others, but keep coming back to these – they taste so good and seem to grow really well for us!
When will you put yours in? Do you do a big crop too? What sort do you prefer?
I haven’t commented in awhile but am enjoying your posts. I have been limiting my screen time. I enjoy the pictures your bounty. I know potato harvest is your fav. Maybe someday y’all could come hike the Appalachian trail or some of the Grand Canyon here in the US. We just recently traveled to the South Rim of Grand Canyon for a short stay. It’s such a special place.I saw a program on Tasmania on public TV and it looked just like your beach pictures! I can’t wait to have fresh garden tomatoes again and am living vicariously though your posts so thanks for that.
Hi Jennifer and thanks for checking in!! 😀
Oh we would love to do a big hike like the Appalachian Trail… we watch videos of people doing those through hikes and think ‘one day’
How cool you were on the South Rim at the Grand Canyon!! I totally loved my few days there and wouldn’t it be great to stay and hike for a week or two?? Its so spectacular!
haha – glad my pictures are living up to the tv programs!!
Oh I know that feeling just before the new season starts and hanging out for proper tomatoes again!! I am so happy I am in the middle of our tomato season!
Enjoy your day!! xx
Love potatoes. With your small ones, try Salt Potatoes. It’s a New England food. Boil your small round spuds in very salty water. Not a chemist, but the salty water changes the texture of the potato to almost creamy. Remove from the salty water, and serve with butter. Yummy. When removed from the water, they don’t come out overly salty either. At the farmer’s market, I actually cull out the baby ones just to do this. Our local grocery store which is based in Maine, sells Salt Potato bags, with the salt included!
Hi!! I will have to give that a go… sounds rather good really… we always like to salt and butter our steamed potatoes… I might try a small pot to see how it goes (to try to get the salt content right)(Or I might even go all out and google it too haha)
I have a feeling with all those potatoes I should do a little more with them and look up some more recipes!
If it was up to only me, I’d just live on baked potatoes 😀 😀
Thank-you for the cooking idea!!
I love these too but I know them as Tenerife potatoes- I’ve had them in the Canary Islands. They sound odd but do taste really good. I haven’t made them for ages, I’ll have to try again when the new potatoes come in. Don’t try them with potatoes you’ve cut up…!
A good tip re not using cut up potatoes! Thanks! 🙂