I love that the first time you sit down to a meal that has your very own grown new potatoes on the plate. They nestled beautifully next to a salad of mixed salad leaves that were also freshly harvested from the allotment only an hour earlier. Now I just need the tomatoes to start producing and the own grown salad season will be in full swing. Does that not make the effort of watering them in the dry spells and planting them when you have not really got time worth while? - Yes it certainly does - nothing tastes like a newly unearthed new potato with freshly picked salad.
Not sure how to tell if your new potatoes are ready? Want the best way to harvest few of your new potatoes at a time? I have a HubPages article on this here is the link.
New-Potatoes. How to harvest your new potatoes.
BTW - the method of removing a few potatoes from the plant without digging it up is called furtling.
a healthy potato plant in flower
photo of potatoes in flower
home grown carrots.. grown from seed
photo of my first bunch of carrots 2009
Even a small batch of mixed fruit can be useful
Home Grown Fruit can be made into delicious compote