I saw a potato today!

[Sonata]

I know..boring. BUT it was the first one I'd ever seen that I'd grown myself. It was about the size of a large strawberry (main crop maris piper), so I suppose not quite ready for eating yet?

Would it be very wrong to eat maris pipers as new potatoes? Next year I'm doing first earlies!

Oh wait, I said I wouldn't do spuds next year!

[shirlthegirl43]

Congratulations. I get the same thrill every time something I plant grows to eating size

There is no rule that says you have to wait for spuds to be a certain size before you scoff them. Some people like them marble size, others prefer egg size or bigger - enjoy!! Just remember, new spuds cook quite quickly and sometimes fall apart if you boil them too fast - I steam mine so they stay together better.

[annacruachan]

Went furtling on an impulse and found a little nest of egg-size Kestrels!
I cooked and ate them on their own with a bit of butter. Heaven! It's so exciting putting some small spuds in a bucket and having them reproduce themselves. I don't think anything beats the magic of growing things.

[kerryp]

how do you use your own plants to use as seed potatoes for next year?

[louisesgarden]

Non veg growers will never know the feeling, of wandering into the garden to pick the ready veg for the next meal, you will get the supermarket thing next ! when your pushing your tolley round buying the things you cant grow like toothpaste and tampax ! and you venture up the veg isle moaning out loud that their veg is expensive, covered in plastic and not as good as what you have grown ! it makes my daughter walk off in tesco !