Can you eat the small potatoes?
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georgieq Rank attained: Hazel Tree

Joined: 22 Nov 2009 Posts: 4
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Posted: Sun Jun 06, 2010 1:55 pm Post subject: Can you eat the small potatoes? |
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Hi all
Sadly my potato leaves have gotten blight so I have decided to go ahead and harvest before the tubers get it.
I have some nice sized spuds and then some smallers ones, some marble size and some slightly bigger than marbles but not the same as a golf ball!
Can you eat these?
Also can I grow anything else (obviously not solance family) in the soil?
Thanks
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Joined: 23 Apr 2009 Posts: 297 Location: County Limerick
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georgieq Rank attained: Hazel Tree

Joined: 22 Nov 2009 Posts: 4
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Posted: Mon Jun 07, 2010 8:47 am Post subject: |
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Hi Belfast
Thanks, just enjoyed a lovely dinner of my new (small) potatoes. They were delish. I grew Colleen which were supposed to be blight resistant. Fortunately it doesn't seem to have spread to the actual tubers.
Going to harvest gradually as I need them in the hope that they grow a bit bigger!
Not a fan of brassicas so legumes it is! Yum! |
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simonj Rank attained: Pedunculate oak tree

Joined: 12 May 2010 Posts: 305 Location: Connemara
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Posted: Mon Jun 07, 2010 1:34 pm Post subject: |
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If your near the sea, well, the Atlantic at least, use seawater to boil small new spuds - delish. _________________ My Garden blog
http://www.irishkitchengarden.com/ |
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Sundew Rank attained: Hazel Tree


Joined: 22 May 2008 Posts: 49 Location: Dublin but planning to move home to the whest!
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Posted: Mon Jun 14, 2010 11:41 am Post subject: |
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Simnoj: lived beside the sea all my life and never tried boiling spuds in seawater. Sounds fantastic! Thanks for the tip  _________________ "Don't wear perfume in the garden - unless you want to be pollinated by bees" |
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Sive Rank attained: Chlorophyll for blood
Joined: 18 Apr 2008 Posts: 1731 Location: Co.Wexford
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Posted: Mon Jun 14, 2010 11:54 am Post subject: |
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Just a thought, Sundew, I see you live in Dublin..... there may be quite a difference between fresh Atlantic seawater and the Irish Sea variety.........
Just be careful where you collect it from or you may get more than just well-flavoured potatoes ! |
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