{"id":29104,"date":"2019-06-26T13:14:18","date_gmt":"2019-06-26T13:14:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=29104"},"modified":"2019-06-26T17:23:13","modified_gmt":"2019-06-26T17:23:13","slug":"new-potatoes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=29104","title":{"rendered":"New potatoes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Half our marris peer crop of potatoes on our garden veg plot have blight. We have never had blight on potatoes before it is usually just tomatoes in late summer that get it.<\/p>\n

I googled it and it is caused by wet and warm weather which is what we have been having. Luckily the same crop at the allotment are not effected. It is so open and often windy up there that the ground drys out whereas here everything is now water logged.<\/p>\n

When I googled it it said that if you remove the yellowed foliage you can dig the potatoes up and they will be fine to eat but if you leave it the potatoes will go black. I dug up the new potatoes and there was enough for one meal.<\/p>\n

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New potatoes<\/p><\/div>\n

It’s such a shame because they look as if they would have been a good crop. They were really easy to scrape though and were delicious with butter. We had them with salmon and salad.<\/p>\n

I have a feeling the other half of our marris peer may go the same way. The red fir apple potatoes haven’t been effected though. At least we will still have potatoes from the allotment.<\/p>\n

Yesterday there were three little gem lettuces ready for picking at the allotment. My husband picked them and took one each round to the other two couples we share with. It was great to be able to have one each.<\/p>\n

It was so tasty that we ate the leaves whole with our fingers just sprinkled with salt. We had scampi and chips and had lettuce leaves instead of peas. No need for dressing or mayo as they were lovely with just a sprinkle of salt.<\/p>\n

There are enough cabbages and broad beans to have with our Sunday roast this weekend. It is great to be getting some produce.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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