This time last year blight had already struck, but this year is faring better. The crops are generally good, but the drought has increased scab problems. This is 1 plant of each variety we grew this year.
The anya's have done impressively well. Many of the plants easily had double the harvest of this one and they are really tasty.
International kidney (jersey royals) have been another reliable cropper and they also make decent large potatoes as well as new spuds.
Blue danube was a new variety for us this year. It is meant to be blight resistant, which was why we decided to try these. We haven't been able to test this as yet, but the yields are good and the skins are a nice purple colour.
Rooster have done well again.
I thought this was a great comedy potato!
The Dahlias are flowering well and hopefully they will produce some nice blooms for our allotment show next weekend.
Finally carrots and swedes have been amougst this years successes. We have grown carrots before and had some good ones, but we have never been able to fend off the carrot fly pest. This year we invested in some enviromesh. This was expensive, but seems to have done the trick and we have huge yields of carrots. This year is also our first year we have grown swedes that are bigger than a golf ball! These went in much earlier than in previous years and this seemed to help.
