Did my pots of potatoes feed us this year.

thanks scotsgran, that british queen sounds a good one!

It is NI best selling potato apparently and we had never heard of it until we visited my son and his wife when we went on a visit to them. I was very pleased to access seed of them over here. It is always fun to try new to us varieties. My passion for Potato Days is fuelled by how easy it makes being able to try a few instead of having to buy either a 1kg or a 3kg bag.

we went on holiday to ireland a few years ago, near the Dingle peninsula, it turned out to be quite a foodie place, which is great for me!!
funnily enough it was the potatoes that i remember most, they were so delicious!!! sadly i dont know what type they were, i just bought them in a bag at the small supermarket.

The quality of the food, so plentiful and fresh impressed us too. We were staying in a small town, Warringstown, south of Belfast and access to their M1 was easy and there was so much to do. It is a fantastic holiday destination. The people were so friendly and helpful.

the people were lovely, the scenery stunning, food excellent ~ couldnt want for more!!

I have not mentioned Navan in my blog. I forgot all about it but they are good too. We went to the Navan Heritage site which gave us the ancient history of Ireland but I believe it is now closed.

Here in Ireland we call them Dublin Queens or Queens...Lovely potato...... Navan spuds are lovely too....

This will be a very useful reference for us - we are planting potatoes for the first time this year in pots, and the notes about yield and flavour will go into some sort of diary for future plantings. Thank you, Scotsgran!

You can just favourite the blog to keep it handy for future reference Gattina. I do that with lots of blogs which i want to refer to again. Do let us know how your growing turns out. It is helpful to hear exactly what happened if you are unsure of where to start. I would give every child a seed potato and a builders bucket with holes in the bottom and encourage them to have a little competition to see how they do. You won't capture every child but I reckon there are huge numbers of potential growers out there with no one to guide their efforts.
Motintot you are fortunate to live in Ireland where the soil is perfect for potatoes. Our competion growers grow their potatoes in pure peat. They will have planted in growing tunnels in January in plastic bags designed for the job. I ran out of time to add details for all the varieties I grew but I did that in a blog on goy in April 2011 which is still accessible.

Oh, this blog is already in there, Scotsgran! I meant that my New Year's resolution is to keep some sort of gardeners' diary about stuff that I try growing in our own garden this year. Successes and failures. I always think I'll remember the details, but I don't.
We tried growing potatoes (local, unnamed varieties) the first year we here, and they grew well, but when we dug them up, they were riddled with holes. This is one of the biggest potato-growing areas in Europe, and we were puzzled, but neighbours told us that below a certain altitude, this happens, and that they always plant further up the hill. Still totally in the dark on that one, and didn't bother again, but I came across the idea of growing in containers on GoY, and I'm going to give that a go this year. Fingers crossed!

We are just coming to the end of our potato crop and have just one onion left. I like to see the crops eaten before we have to start throwing any away. Plenty of potatoes and onions were given to family and friends.

What a lovely situation to be in, Bulba - growing enough that you can be generous. Unfortunately, round here, all our neighbours are such expert cultivators, there's nothing we can give them that they can't grow more of, or better, themselves.