Heritage Potatoes Edzell Blue Shetland Black British Queen Fortyfold Isle of Jura

Planting the tatties.

We had 5 varieties of tatties to plant. These are the Edzell Blue ones growing in our school garden.

Once the leaves began to show we banked the earth up around the plants.

When the tatties were ready for picking we went out and gathered them in.

Some of the tatties we grew were white and some were purple. We had to find out which kind was which.

In groups we washed the tatties.

Next we sorted the tatties into the different varieties.

We got a good number of each type of tattie.

We weighed the different types to see which crop weighed the most.

We weighed the tatties and found that: Fortyfold 1 kg 625g Edzell Blue 1 kg 230g Shetland Black 850g British Queen 3 kg 340g Isle of Jura 1 kg 585g

We counted to see how many of each variety we had.

When we counted the different varieties of tatties we found we had: 81 – Fortyfold 71 Edzell Blue 50 Shetland Black 70 British Queen 43 Isle of Jura

The school cook let us boil the tatties in the school kitchen.

We tried the different types and said which one we liked best. The one which most people liked best was British Queen.

The tatties which were left from our tasting session were made into tattie scones which we all tried.

We wrote comments about the different potatoes we tasted without knowing which kind they were.

The most popular tattie was British Queen. Some of the comments about this one were: Really nice, tasty, light and fluffy, good, smells good but tastes funny, I like this one the best, sweet, amazing, tastes good but soft, better than all of them, my favourite so far, I like the taste of a soft tattie, brilliant.

We filled in the form from Crofting Connections to record information about our tattie growing project. We really enjoyed this project and it involved a lot of different kinds of activities.