Roosters Still Ok !

[braders]

Evening all

I was doing some preparation work on the plot today for this coming season and found a row of Rooster potatoes put in last April...to think they have survived all that freezing weather we had...just shows you...pic attached.

Cheers
braders...

[stella]

Wow they look great, well done

[maytreefrannie]

Brillliant, Braders - have you eaten them yet? Let us know please. I'm betting they were delicious.

[Bigmallly]

Hope they taste as nice as they look braders, looks like being deep in the soil protects them from the surface frost.

[Munch]

Braders.

We have just taken over a plot and the previous tenent had left all of his spuds in the ground, to my delight nearly all of them looked fine. But, to my humour, an old very Irish chap told me all about potaoes and the fact that the frost may still have gotten to them, but the only way to find out is to cut them and if they are too watery they may not be good and if still not sure then eat them, if they are not good they would be horrid.

Well I then spent ages scrubbing them and pealing, what loooked like perfect poatoes, but when you cut into them they had an extra crunch and you can see a 'water mark' through the middle and they did smell a bit too potatoey!

So decided not to risk it with the rest on the plot

There is ebery chance that yours really are fine tho, fingers crossed.

I have just spent all morning digging them upand chuicking them away what a shame

[Nicos]

I found some like that a year or so back.
I was thrilled til I started eating them..uttely tasteless and gloopy.

Fingers crossed yours are OK braders

[lottieanne]

I have had about 5 boilings of spuds left over from previous owner :-)

[mary-belle]

we grew spuds in our garden last year and are laying a lawn this spring, my bf has been going mad since the autum as every patch he digs over he finds a few tatties I missed. I dug up another 5 yesterday, all looked in perfect condition but I didn't want another lecture so I didn't try to eat them :-(

[Jono]

Nice! I love finding stuff like that. I've got a spring green cabbage that is now entering its second spring. Doesn't seem to want to go to seed at all, and the leaves in the middle still look tender. I can't bring myself to pull it up.

[Jelliebabe]

Nice! I love finding stuff like that. I've got a spring green cabbage that is now entering its second spring. Doesn't seem to want to go to seed at all, and the leaves in the middle still look tender. I can't bring myself to pull it up.

You softie Jono! See how long you can keep it

[snohare]

My Red Duke of York, Orlas and other anonymous variety all stayed in the ground in temperatures of down to minus fifteen, none of them were frosted except a few that were on the surface for a long time. No problems with taste, if anything I thought they tasted sweeter, I was delighted !

[SlugLobber]

I leave quite a few of my spuds outside over winter. I pile manure on top of them (or used up compost) and this insulates them nicely. We got to nearly -15 here this winter, but last week I dug up my first spuds of the year. Some fantastic desirees. Yummmmmm!!!

The trouble I have is stopping the buggers sprouting INdoors. I've got triffids under the stairs and thought I was going to have to throw out a knitted cardigan, which was all but consumed!!