Monday, January 15, 2018

PURPLE PASSION

I think it must have been the end of October, just before we went away to Raglan, that we planted our Purple Passion potatoes.  I had never heard of them and bought them because they were on special and much cheaper than the usual Agria.  We later bought a bag of Agria and planted them as well.

Anyway,  we have just finished a bag of potatoes and the tops of our ones are dying down so today I dug the first plant.  900 gms of potatoes.  They could, possibly, have been left a bit longer as there were many smaller ones coming on but we will continue to dig them as needed from now on.

They get a good write up so we shall see when we have them tonight.

LATER:

They were delicious.

10 comments:

  1. Will you save one or two to use when they sprout again?

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    1. Not sure. I often plant the odd potatoe bought from the supermarket if they start to sprout so, most likely will plant one of these if they sprout.

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  2. I usually don't bother with spuds as they're so cheap to buy, and take up room. But last year I put in a row, and they were all very small. I like the idea of delving into the soil, but I shan't bother again.

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    1. We always used to brow them when we were up north until the farmer across the road started growing them by the acre. He gave them to us if we dug them ourselves so I used to go over and get them and kumara. I just love digging potatoes.

      We put in two built up gardens and used one for potatoes and they are only in for about three months so, all going well, I am sure we will grow them again.

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  3. I haven’t planted but have prepared and eaten purple potatoes. They were good and made a nice presentation on the plates.

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    1. These ones were cream inside. I have eaten purple Maori potatoes before. They look beautiful.

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  4. Yum, I don't think I've ever tried them before.

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  5. If you steam instead of boil the potatoes, you keep both colour and flavour

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