huh. So, when bloggers announce that they’ve almost got the hang of potato day, they should check before posting (indeed, before buying) that when they go in looking for exactly 45 seed potatoes, knowing that that will give them more or less the right amount of potatoes to last the winter for a household consisting of one British person and one American (and hence fairly potato-sceptic) person, (even if the British person is technically half Irish, and hence fairly pro-potato), that they haven’t forgotten about the kilo of seed potatoes that a kind person in the village has already given them.
This, for future reference, is what too many seed potatoes looks like.
In other news, it has started raining.
See now, here I had been wondering what on earth I’d be writing about, now that we’re back on home soil. All I had to do was line up some potatoes. Silly me.
oopps
@kim – oops indeed
@Bob – nobody said this blog had to be *interesting*…
Store them in a cold dark place and they’ll keep for a several months. That’s what the main potato producers do.
Surely it’s better to have too many rather than too few! xx
SMSM – the ones I harvested in October are still pretty good (black bin in the shed) but they’ll probably start sprouting even in the pitch dark
@Flighty – I suppose, but I ended up throwing away so many last year! Terrible waste…
Nothing for it but to prepare to open a mobile, bike powered, chippy.
by god, I think you’ve got it…
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