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Part of Verona's potato harvest

I’ve been promising for ages that I would write final totals for Verona’s spectacular potato harvest. You might remember she took part in the potato council’s “Potatoes for schools” scheme. She was sent two rocket potatoes and two vale emerald potatoes to plant.

She planted them at the end of march

Earthed them up at the beginning of May

and dug up and ate her first crop at the end of June

Well she had a massive harvest! We were supposed to grow the potatoes in black plastic sacks, but we put ours in the ground and had:

• 370 gms of Rocket

• 610 gms of Vale Emerald

a few weeks later she dug up:

• 725 gms of Rocket and finally

• 884 gms of Vale Emerald!

All in all it was a monster harvest of over 2.5 kgs and she proved to herself that leaving them in the ground longer meant a bigger harvest. As boiled potatoes with butter is one of her favourite things to eat, she was very pleased!