Potato harvest begins

"100 days for First Earlies" my site-neighbour Ron tells me.  Well it's been 95 days since planting and I decided to lift.  Apparently the rest need to come up before August or blight sets in - black diseased potatoes.

3 rows of Marix Bard planted on April 7th, about 15 seed potatoes. Salad or 'New' potatoes

Very cool digging them up and quite a good harvest.  Sorted them out back home using the 4-stage classification system Perfect, 1-Hole, 2 or more holes, Severe (I.e. Bad).

Here's a photo of the resiults (Perfect at the bottom)

Probably eat everything in Groups 1 and 2, unless war breaks out and we'll have to eat Group 3.  It would have to get pretty bad to try Group 4 although there may be some poor sods who would welcome them.