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Potato weigh in this way please!

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  • kazwookie
    kazwookie Posts: 14,271 Forumite
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    Well done

    noonesperfect that is brill......
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  • kazwookie wrote: »
    Well done

    noonesperfect that is brill......

    Thanks Kazwookie.

    Just as well I couldn't grow that many choccie buttons - they're so moreish :p;):D :EasterBun :drool: _pale_
    :wave:
  • stmidwife
    stmidwife Posts: 1,036 Forumite
    Hubby has just rooted out 5lb worth of spuds!:j:j Never grown any before and am gobsmacked that I managed to get any. Still have some more to come. ;)
  • kazwookie
    kazwookie Posts: 14,271 Forumite
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    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!!

    :T :T :T :T :T

    Well done everyone so far.
    Breast Cancer Now 100 miles October 2022 100 / 100miles
    D- Day 80km June 2024 80/80km (10.06.24 all done)
    Diabetic UK 1 million steps July 2024 to complete by end Sept 2024. 1,001,066/ 1,000,000 (20.09.24 all done)
    Breast Cancer Now 100 miles 1st May 2025 (18.05.2025 all done)
    Diabetic UK 1 million steps July 2025 to complete by end Sept 2025. 504,789 / 1,000,000
    Sun, Sea
  • Dug up my King Eds at the weekend - 70lb from a 10 x 4 foot plot (18 plants). Don't think I'll complain about that!
  • kazwookie
    kazwookie Posts: 14,271 Forumite
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    Dazzer that is brill well done.

    I dug up one of the bags last night, well tipped it out, got 5lbs 8oz from it 3 seeds spuds, but the compost / soil was just so dry, yet I had watered loads, and it has been chucking it down here as well. (forgot to take a piccy)
    Breast Cancer Now 100 miles October 2022 100 / 100miles
    D- Day 80km June 2024 80/80km (10.06.24 all done)
    Diabetic UK 1 million steps July 2024 to complete by end Sept 2024. 1,001,066/ 1,000,000 (20.09.24 all done)
    Breast Cancer Now 100 miles 1st May 2025 (18.05.2025 all done)
    Diabetic UK 1 million steps July 2025 to complete by end Sept 2025. 504,789 / 1,000,000
    Sun, Sea
  • ~Chameleon~
    ~Chameleon~ Posts: 11,956 Forumite
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    I'm going a firklin' today :j ... watch this space! :D :rotfl:
    “You can please some of the people some of the time, all of the people some of the time, some of the people all of the time, but you can never please all of the people all of the time.”
  • Enjoy your firkle ;)
  • SEE
    SEE Posts: 722 Forumite
    Arrgh I didnt see this and have eaten my first container lot. :(
    Me too, and they were yummy:D My King Edwards won't be ready for a while, but I'll weigh them once lifted:o
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    Halifax, taking the Xtra since 1853:rolleyes:
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  • SEE
    SEE Posts: 722 Forumite
    Dazzer129 wrote: »
    Dug up my King Eds at the weekend - 70lb from a 10 x 4 foot plot (18 plants). Don't think I'll complain about that!
    An excellent return :T
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    Halifax, taking the Xtra since 1853:rolleyes:
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