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They made a nice potato salad with some home grown spring onions and chives!

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[–] tox_solid 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Boil 'em, mash 'em, stick 'em in a stew.

[–] ilovecheese 4 points 1 year ago

Lovely big golden chips with a nice piece of fried fish.

[–] thrawn21 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Man, potatoes have been a conundrum for me. I once randomly stuck some sweet potato ends in the ground, and ended up having a massive harvest. Every time I've tried to repeat that success, nada.

[–] ilovecheese 3 points 1 year ago

It's a funny old game like that. Plants do as they please, regardless of our best intentions!

To be honest I'm surprised I got these. Foxes and/or cats have been using the potato sacks as beds and crushed the lot!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I’ll trade you, five of the big ones for about 88 million cherry tomatoes.

[–] ilovecheese 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Like that is it? lol

Last year I ended up with 10kg of beefsteak tomatoes! Still using the sauces I made now :)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The worst part is that the unwanted, unplanted cherry tomato plant is outperforming the beefsteaks that I actually planted. Are we SURE we’ve actually domesticated these things?

Beefsteaks are awesome; I’ve finally figured out the deliciousness of a simple tomato sandwich, just tomato, good bread, mayo and salt and pepper. Beautiful.

[–] ilovecheese 1 points 1 year ago

Mmmm, tomato and mayo, that's my kind of sandwich!

I was actually hoping for some of last years yellow cherries to pop up, but no such luck.

[–] Stanwich 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh wow. I'm still weeks away up here in BC

[–] ilovecheese 1 points 1 year ago

Southern UK here. It's been a strange summer this year, so far. Things seem to be growing either fast or slow compared to last year.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] ilovecheese 2 points 1 year ago

Thanks! I thought they were too! :)