I might love my neighbours and broccoli but I hate squishy seed potatoes
You know how seed potatoes go squishy and brown by the time you harvest your new potatoes?
Is it just me or is putting your hand into that BALL OF VILENESS, the vegetable equivalent of Satan’s diseased gonad, enough to put you off growing potatoes for life?
…
Just me?
About Me
I'm Louisa and I live a Really Good Life. I grow, I craft, I cook and I make the most of what I've got instead of forever craving more.
Read more the site on the About page, or browse through the categories below. -
Taking Stock – May 2015
-
Making a little more progress at the allotment
-
Allotment, end of round 1 (ding ding)
-
Yay, allotment!
-
Taking stock – June 2014
-
Do it better
-
Stitching etc tips from the Knitting & Stitching Show
-
No Spend November
-
My winter to-do list 2013
-
Taking stock: a ‘what I’m up to in my absence’ meme
-
Plummy solid square crochet blanket
-
Attack of the Crochet Claw
-
Using up the glut: Marrow cake recipe
-
Spicy marrow chutney recipe
-
Wild plum/cherry plum jam recipe
-
Easy marrow and ginger jam recipe
-
No omelettes allowed: my five favourite recipes to use up lots of eggs
-
My chicken keeping spreadsheet
-
Plummy solid square crochet blanket
-
Spicy plum chutney recipe: plum & chilli jam
-
Foraging for wild food: do you forage near roads?
-
Upcycle an old duvet cover into a frugal bean bag
-
The wonder that is slow rise bread
-
How I line dry clothes in winter: my top five tips
-
My low-spend '11: buy less than 12 items of clothing in 2011
-
Cold smoking cheese - taste testing the first batch
-
Using up the glut: Marrow cake recipe
-
How I line dry clothes in winter: my top five tips
-
Spicy marrow chutney recipe
-
Washing in winter: ideas for reducing laundry?
-
Foraging for wild food: do you forage near roads?
-
Your favourite fiction books with simple living characters/themes?
-
How I spent my Tuesday afternoon
-
We *heart* books too (warning: picture heavy post!)
-
Portion control
-
Baking things that'll last
No, not just you!
Erm… don’t put your hand in it? ;)
I agree, it quite shocked the OH when he dug his first potatoes up the other week!
Rachel & Alison: glad to know I’m not the only one! my commiserations on you experiencing the potato goo issue too!
Mo: I don’t seek them out! There I am, innocently plucking my pale white egg-like ‘tatoes from the soil, then BAM! hand in a vile ick sack. I’m not easily icked out but iccccccck!
I agree! dug up my first home grown spuds last week and had an euwww reaction to the mushy seed potato. It was only on the spade though, not my hand!
I’m so with you, and i agree with Mo iccccccccccc!
Hehe, I hate it too but I wear gloves so it doesn’t bother me so much!
I dug up my first potatoes yesterday… I put my hand in that ….. three times… :-(
But I’ll still grow potatoes next year…