This is rapidly turning into a week of digging up food. After the onions and carrots, it was time to turn our attention to the potato bags behind the greenhouse.

We’ve always grown our potatoes in trugs or bags, as it’s so much easier to keep track of where they are and what they’re doing. It’s also easier to farm around them, as they have extensive foliage and when you grow them in a bag it doesn’t creep all over your other crops.

But bags can also get waterlogged and having left the last four from summer outside through a particularly wet and very cold winter I didn’t hold out much hope for their contents.

A bit of a bonus, then, when in turning out the first of them, every single potato turned out to be a beautiful golden yellow, with just a little bit of dirt on their skins, and a good firm flesh underneath. No signs of any animal interference, and certainly no rotting, which makes a change from last year when the late-harvested tubers were 50% inedible.

It’s revived my faith in potatoes. I had been wavering about whether or not it was worth doing them again this year, but after such a pleasing late harvest (and with three potato bags left to turn out) they’re definitely back on the menu.

Related posts:

1. A late potato harvest
2. Growing potatoes in bags
3. The First Potato Harvest