potatoes!

yes, i've gone a bit potato mad. MrL had a brilliant idea one day, and that was to plant the potatoes we had in our kitchen as they were starting to grow legs and were itching to get out. so he put them out. out into a box filled with fresh soil in our back garden. we kept them there for quite some time and they flowered beautifully with purple forget-me-not style flowers. it was a pretty sight. what was NOT a pretty sight was the amount of spiders, ants, caterpillars, larvae, centipedes, SLUGS and other nasties we found whilst uncovering the potatoes. i think L did a great job excavating them out. i dare not go near them since i found the bugs. so i held the plastic bag to collect our treasure. it's a shame i didn't take any 'before' pictures, as the potatoes we found were, well, not the prettiest to say the least. i'd say, about a quarter of them were perfect - no bites, no mold, no cracks, no funny black/brown spots. i scrubbed them all down and after having thrown some out we were left with 54 home-grown potatoes!

it was time to eat them, and boy were they delicious. we still have about a third left, so many more mash nights to come (i'm sure MrL is over the moon).

i'm certain we'll do exactly the same next year, as what's more enjoyable than eating veg from your own garden - i'm loving it!

have you got anything edible in your garden?

xoxo