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Growing => Grow Your Own => Topic started by: Kleftiwallah on October 14, 2020, 17:14

Title: "DRAT IT"!
Post by: Kleftiwallah on October 14, 2020, 17:14
Just dug up a few Maris Peer spuds and I've pronged four :mad:

Cheers,   Tony.
Title: Re: "DRAT IT"!
Post by: Aunt Sally on October 14, 2020, 19:27
Ain’t that the way  :mad:

I’ve got a potato fork - flat tines that tend to push the tubers rather than stab them.  Still stabs a few though.
Title: Re: "DRAT IT"!
Post by: JayG on October 14, 2020, 21:06
Just dug up a few Maris Peer spuds and I've pronged four :mad:
Cheers,   Tony.

And there will at least four more you didn't even spot which will grow even more enthusiastically next year (from underneath your salad patch!  :wacko:)
Title: Re: "DRAT IT"!
Post by: Growster... on October 15, 2020, 06:37
I reckon digging spuds is one of the most rewarding activities one can enjoy on an allotment.

You're moving the soil around, getting a little exercise, wondering what you'll find, thinking about what they'll taste of with a little butter, finding the first few beauties gleaming at you and you start digging further to get even more...

And then you spear one!!! You're heart-broken:..0(~

You're still going to use it though, aren't you!
Title: Re: "DRAT IT"!
Post by: Blewit on October 15, 2020, 07:43
Just dug up a few Maris Peer spuds and I've pronged four :mad:

It always seems to be the biggest ones too.
Title: Re: "DRAT IT"!
Post by: rowlandwells on October 15, 2020, 17:11
we always scuffle our late crop of potatoes  with the tractor and my wife keeps a watchful eye just encase i damage any but i have to say we had very few damaged this year and we used those first i only dig the early potatoes by hand and i even manage to stab the odd one with the wife looking on if looks could kill  A :D
Title: Re: "DRAT IT"!
Post by: bayleaf on October 15, 2020, 18:53
White gold (unless you grew a red variety). Love digging up spuds particularly with my 5 year old grandson (which we could do in the summer but not now - sigh).
Title: Re: "DRAT IT"!
Post by: Kleftiwallah on October 16, 2020, 16:09

I have an 'Irish fork' but still end up pronging some.  Cleared the bed of Maris Peer, Charlotte and Nicole, I do not know which girl it was but I got her right through the middle, the only one today though.


Cheers,  Tony.