I really didn’t expect the potatoes to be any good after all the snow and ice we’ve had since the middle of December. This weekend was the first one to be completely green on the ground, though, so I thought I’d turn out a bag and see what they were like.

The answer, as I’ve already given away, was actually pretty good.

We grow our potatoes in bags lined up behind the greenhouse, which are almost certainly more susceptible to the cold as they’re exposed on three sides. Potatoes grown in the ground will benefit from the heat of the earth, and are only exposed from above.

Hauling 24 potatoes from just one of the four bags we have left, then, was an unexpected bonus, and suggests we could well have 75 or so potatoes left to turn out, which should see us through to the end of February – assuming they are all as good as these ones.

I’m tempted to dig up a few of our parsnips tomorrow and see how they have coped with the winter weather.

Related posts:

1. Growing potatoes in bags
2. The potatoes have started
3. A late potato harvest