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.
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Wow, what a great potato harvest. I love Anya's. My favourite way to have them as a real treat is just to chop them in half lengthways, coat them in olive oil and then roast in the oven until crispy. Place them all in a big bowl in the middle of the table - give everyone their own fork and a small bowl with salt and malt vinegar already all mixed up together in and just dip the roasted anyas in the mixture. Perfection!
Anya's always do well for us Amy. Some of the yields for these have been crazy. One plant had half a carrier bag full on! The only problem we have had is they don't take too well to the cold (being so small they freeze quick!) and we lost a whole sackfull last winter. Lesson is now learnt to not keep them in the shed in freezing weather!
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