Some of our East Lothian Maris Piper in Tesco, nicely packed by Branston Ltd

First wash up of 21/22 Season for our Coop. quality, like yield, a notch down on last season. Given the cold, wet May, then the hot dry summer we had, it’s hardly a surprise.

It’s obviously a lot of fun working at Nene Potatoes. Sample girls rock!!! #eatmorespuds #nenepotatoes

An environmentally friendly journey down from Scotland for the Scottish Potato Coop. Find me on Stand 138 demonstrating tasc-software.co.uk potato trading software. We love it!

Great article, however there are some far superior varieties out there to trump those mentioned! Have we been getting potatoes all wrong? - BBC Food bbc.co.uk/food/articles/…

Food miles are the distance your food has travelled to get to your plate🍽️Food miles matter as this travel adds a great deal to the greenhouse gas emissions🌍 So, next time you read your food labels if your produce has travelled a long distance consider its carbon footprint. 👣

Second wash up of the season. Strangely, and somewhat reassuringly, the spuds looked better this time! Just 1 member at a time because of COVID but it leads to more in depth and constructive discussions.

Third wash up of the season - reassuring to see c80 fields gone and 74 to go.

And so it begins. Slightly damp up here to start but now more or less perfect. Tattie planting 2022 east bridge of dun youtu.be/7JiWEjPXu48 via YouTube

April 30th 2021 on left, 5th April 22 on right.

Sprinklers going in what we hope will be our Maris Piper for July 23

Scottish Potato Coop strategy day!

A wee tour round our early crops in East Lothian with the legendary Haig Hamilton - of course he couped me once again which is an annual ritual. Overall comments - irrigated stuff (7 x 30mm) looks good, unirrigated = worrying. M Piper and Caledonian Rose, which looks a variety.

We pumped water 2 miles, under a main road and a railway to this field and there’s nothing over 65mm yet. It’s getting a tad worrying.

Soraya - liking the look of this, other than it’s had 6 inches, virtually the only site we are not struggling for water.

Not sure if it’s thunder or the spuds cracking!

Why do you grow So much Cultra in Scotland? Un-irrigated Cultra on left, unspecified 2nd early on the right.

Church across the road from our admin office has put this sign up. Not sure if it’s specifically aimed at us 😂