Mixed in terms of what I am gathering in, mixed also in the results.
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| Maincrop potatoes still growing happily |
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| Toluca close-up showing splitting |
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| Toluca, dug and washed |
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| Sarpo Kifli - looking good |
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| Sarpo Kifli, not bad off one plant |
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| Onions - Centurion and Red Baron in foreground |
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| Dessert apples |
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| Soggy-dog, keeping a close watch for passing flies |
Some of the produce has done really well (we've been eating our own cucumbers, peas, mange tout, calabrese and tomatoes, amongst other things, for months) while some have been disappointing. I suppose it depends on the plants' response to that prolonged dry weather earlier in the year.
A good example has been the potatoes. The
Charlotte were brilliant, few blemishes, heavy cropping, reliable and so tasty. The
Sarpo Kifli, which I only test dug one plant of today, look very productive (but I have no idea about taste yet). The
Marfona were too good - must plant more next time.
Toluca though were disappointing. Some large tubers, but too many of them split, allowing in other little nasties, in some cases rotting out the core; the taste was truly wonderful though (what Mrs Soggy described as an old-fashioned potato taste), so maybe if I grow them again I shall have to water them.
The cooking apples look to be doing well, but the dessert apples are giving mixed results - the birds like them though.
