I've got tatas too!

[StephenH]

I've just harvested my first 'Maris Piper' spuds. I dug up three medium-sized ones, and one great big one. I boiled the medium ones and have just had half of them with steamed 'Cherokee' French beans, and 2 'All Green Bush' courgettes (grated) and a'Stuttgarter' onion (chopped) sauteed together in olive oil. I put half of everything in the fridge to warm up tonight, because I made rather a lot, and had the other half for lunch - delicious, and all out of my garden! (Well, apart from the olive oil, and the marg. I put on them). The spuds and the onion were the first of each that I've harvested. It's perhaps a bit early to be harvesting maincrop spuds, according to the books anyway, but if I harvest them as needed, it'll be quite a while before I harvest the last of them.
I put the great big spud in the larder to bake tomorrow: it's as big as my fist (and I'm a six-foot bloke, with normal six-foot-bloke-sized hands).

[StephenH]

Here it is: I tried uploading it as an attachment, but my computer's playing silly-buggers, and it wouldn't let me. I did, however, manage to upload it to photobucket.

[Wren]

Wow!!! That's a nice size spud for your first main crop! well done you! . You will be lucky if the slugs did not get any.

Wren

[StephenH]

Thanx! I haven't seen many slugs in the garden so far. Maybe I've just been lucky..

[dexterdoglancashire]

Well done! It's a super feeling isn't it? I just love rooting round in the soil to find my tatties - bit like hidden treasure isn't it?

[ckfe]

Well done! It's a super feeling isn't it? I just love rooting round in the soil to find my tatties - bit like hidden treasure isn't it?

mine are in a big crate.. 6 seedling potatoes in there.. so far i've had a good root round but only found 3 potatoes, do most of the potatoes live near the bottom or am i not going to get many more? don't want to do too much digging as i want to leave it for my 6 year old to do, like you said hidden treasure