Our growing potatoes

The potato we planted on February 29th has started to grow. We water it about once a week and it started to sprout over the Easter holidays. Here is a picture of it on Easter Saturday (March 22nd). We can see that it has three shoots.

Here is a picture of the three shoots (8cm, 6cm and 6cm) on Monday, March 31st, the first day back after our Easter holidays.

By Friday April 4th, the shoots have grown to 19cm, 17cm and 15cm.

Thursay, 5th June, 2008
Our potatoes have three lovely white flowers. The stalks are about 100cm tall. We can't wait to harvest the potatoes on June 10th.

Friday, 6th June, 2008
Today we decided to harvest our potatoes. We needed weighing scales, a basin of clean water, a towel, plastic gloves and the potato plant. We looked to see how tall our plant is by comparing it with the tallest and the smallest child in our class. When the potato plant was pulled out of the ground we could see all the little potatoes growing out of the roots. We collected, washed, dried and weighed the potatoes. We harvested six, and together they weighed 2 and a half ounces. If we had left them in the soil longer we think they would have grown much bigger and heavier.