Friday, 25 December 2009

Christmas harvest

Despite the fact that some of the potato plants haven't even started flowering, I was determined to get a few baby potatoes to have with Christmas lunch today. After fossicking around in all the bags, I discovered two things:
1) there's not enough compost in there, and
2) there aren't many potatoes either.

However we did manage to get a handful of teeny tiny spuds, so hurrah for that! And some of them are an exciting purple colour. I look forward to seeing how they taste.

We also pulled some carrots and found some more ripe strawberries, as well as a couple more tomatoes.

Potatoes - 113g
Carrots - 221g
Tomatoes - 94g
Strawberries - 193g




The things that look like plums or dark pebbles are actually potatoes. They are so purple on the outside that they  look almost black, and on the inside they look like this:



I haven't cooked them yet so don't know if they retain the colour after cooking, but they certainly look great raw.

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