The Second 'Tater Test

Well, I just had to do that little check on the 'Belle de Fontaney's' didn't I?
They were not quite as numerous with 24 piepers per plant and they were smaller in size.
Having said that, they were planted two weeks later than the 'Roze Kointjes', so I expect that these will nee another three weeks or so before they are ready to harvest for real.
The Quality Control: These were more crumbly than the Roze Kointjes and actually absorbed the butter.
The taste was different, but for my taste buds, an excellent flavour.
For the folk that like their spuds a bit crumbly, these will be really apreciated.

All of the potatos that I am growing this year are the so-called, "Gourmet Salad Potatos". They make a distinct change from the regular, round ones that are most common.
We ate these last night with young courgettes (you know the fancy one that are picked when they are about a finger long). My partner said that we were going to "eat fancy tonight". hahaha...what's she like!
Well, she cut them lengthways and put them on a steak grill that had been oiled with olive oil--sje sprinkled a bit of salt and more olive oil then turned them for awhile. She did nothing more with them. We had breaded Wiener Schnitzels with a squirt of lemon juice. It really was a fancy meal and it cried for abit of ice cream afterwards to round it off nicely. Wink

Well, she says that with all the courgette plants that we have, we will have to eat them small otherwise we'll be inundated with big ones (and she's right there!)...your friends and collegues can only so take so many before their threshhold is reached. chuckle. Luckily it's still coolish here...but when it hots up, they will go a little crazy.

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Thanks for your responces to the taters. heh heh heh. They are really just soooo delicious. We had them again tonight.
Tch!...they'll be all gone and I will have to test another batch before long. I must remail vigilent, you understand.

I like all kinds of potatos too, Toni--but I prefer the 'waxy' ones to the softer crumbly ones. That's jst a texture thing, when it comes to taste, it's the taste that is most important to me.

I know, GM...those little ones are the best, in my opinion.

Well Biita--I have heard you and Droopy talk about 'Almond' potatos. Do you guys happen to know another name for these? Since you two find them so tasty, I am naturally very curious and want to learn more about them. Wink

I appreciate the garlic rubbing tip. I really LURVE garlic.

Well Dooley, it is such an enormous strain upon my patience waiting for the potato plants to be ready to give-up their tubers. What we need is a good ground-soaking rain for several hours--then the spuds will get a big growing spurt and it will be time to harvest them. Hopefully that will happen this weekend. Fingers crossed.

Well Eileen, I will have to look in the little black book to see what the next tater to test will be for sure...but I believe that it will be the 'Charlotte'. I will try and hold off till after the rain.
my bride had bagged-up the store bought spuds for her mum....so we will be forced to eat our own now.
What a tribulation that will be. Wink

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