Potato weigh in this way please!

kazwookie · 14 July 2008 at 3:13PM

Potato firklers this way please. :rotfl:

Several of us are growing potatoes this year, in various containers/ earth/ allotments etc. Very MS :j :j

So this is where you report in your weights and what type of potatoes you have grown, and if possible show a photo of the finished spuds before you cook them. (please make sure the photo FITS or is smaller than the page, us old ones take ages to get to the end of the screen!)

You may need to up date as you dig up.

If this thread takes off, I will try to keep the front page up to date with your name, weight of spuds and type, if you cannot remember then don’t worry, and who is the chief firkler in your family!!:rotfl:

kazwookie 3 spuds = 5lbs 2oz!
Jack’s Mummy 10 potatoes = 6.3lbs
Skippy54 18 potatoes DT Brown Vale Emerald (no weight on this lot)
next lot = 1 potato = 3.3lbs
Teedy23 5lbs 4oz (supermaket)
Elsien 4 potatoes = 5 lbs maris piper (poundland £1) plus 3 spuds = 4lbs.
Squiggle37 5 lbs DT Brown plus 2lbs 3 oz
Arkonite_babe grew carp ones! Better luck next year
Dazzer129 18 potatoes = 48lbs Charlottes
divadee 12 spuds = 49.14 lbsDuke of York
MrsMcawber 1 charlotte potato = 2.2lbs
Chocolate Monkey 3 potatoes = 1lb 13oz(pink smile homebase) plus 2 spuds = 3lbs 2 oz.
Csnann 10 spuds = 25lbsValeEmeralds DT Brown, plus 6 cara spuds = 13lbs 8oz
Sammyjammy 1lbs 4oz, plus 2lbs 10oz witchhill
Miss Muppet 4 potaotes = 2lbs
Chameleon 2ozs or there abouts! better luck next year
Kron 4 potatoes = 3lbs
Nodwah 8 potatoes = 5 1/2 lbs
Miro 1 potato = 2 1/2 lbs
noonesperfect 3 potatoes = 7lbs+ plus 6spuds Nicola = 16lbs 8ozs!
louise_1981 2 potatoes = 1lbs 4oz
Mardatha 23 small spuds,
lovelyjubbly 10 spuds = 14lbs DT Brown
evilgoose 12lbs Maris Peer plus 10lbs Maris Piper
Connacher 5lbs
Stmidwife 5lbs

By the looks of things the Duke of York is in the lead, with Charlotte a close second!!

Next time you dig , post up the new weight and how seeds spuds you used and I can up date the list.

I'm still firkling

Jack's_mummy · 14 July 2008 at 6:30PM

You knew I'd be here didn't you:rotfl:

We have finished our 3 pots of pots now and the weights of each were:
pot 1 - 3 seed pots gave 1.5lbs new potatoes
pot 2 - 3 seed pots gave 1.6lbs new potatoes
pot 3 - 4 seeds pots gave 3.2lbs new potatoes

No idea what type they were just a bag from Wilkinsons. Here is the first harvest -

SKIPPY54 · 14 July 2008 at 11:23PM

Hi,If only I had weighed them!!:mad:
We have just made a start on free ones from DTBrown,vale emerald ,I did count them,18 in all thats including 2 thumbnail sized ones :j they were really tasty.:D These have been grown in flower buckets.
I will get a photo and weigh the next ones.

teedy23 · 14 July 2008 at 11:49PM

i,ve got a photo of the ones I ate yesterday (my first) but I dont know how to show you. Weighed about 2lbs. Dont know what they were either, just a spud from supermarket bag left over.

arkonite_babe · 15 July 2008 at 12:14AM

mine were all carp :mad: :mad: :mad:

I had about half a bucket from 3 big bins of plants, grrrrr

Better results from the one I planted in the bed, guess what I'll be doing next year?????

elsien · 15 July 2008 at 12:18PM

Just dug up my first container yesterday - meant to be earlies (whatever it was poundland was selling) but I think I left them too long as some of them were huge. Got just over 2lb from 3 seed potatoes - not grown them before so I was quite pleased.
The other container is the same size but I only put one potato in - I wasn't sure if the pot was big enough so I thought I'd try both and see what happened. Will dig up the others when I finish the first lot.
Other than £1 for the potatoes it hasn't cost anything as I used homemade compost and fertiliser from the wormery. If I'd had to pay for compost and plant food, I don't think it would have been worthwhile.

squiggle37 · 15 July 2008 at 1:38PM

Dug mine morning they are the free ones from DT Brown, i put half in ground and other in grow bags

these are from ground just over 5lb, cant wait to eat some for tea:D

http://i195.photobucket.com/albums/z27/nottsfem/P7150149.jpg

Going to dig others in a couple weeks

kazwookie · 15 July 2008 at 2:41PM

Well done so far folks, keep them coming.:j :j

As I planted about the 13th May to 22nd May in to tubs and compost bags, mine are not ready yet.

And in addition

I don't know which are the 1st or 2nd earliers or main crop as the tubs / bags got mixed up when I moved them to assemble the greenhouse!!

So clearly I am going to have to do some firkling in a couple of weeks. :rotfl:

I do know I planted, Saxon, Accent and Piccaco total cost £1.25 from local garden centre (about 20 seed spuds in total I think)

kazwookie · 15 July 2008 at 2:55PM

Skippy54 and Squiggle37, these spuds from DT Brown, that were free, was it some sort of special offer, or a freebie? and do you know if they are doing it next year? I love a freebie

ChocolateMonkey · 15 July 2008 at 7:12PM

Arrgh I didnt see this and have eaten my first container lot.

kazwookie · 15 July 2008 at 7:37PM

ChocolateMonkey

How many did you get, how many did you plant, you can still join in.

Potato weigh in this way please!

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