In exciting news, the @KirkintillochHS garden has achieved their @RHSSchools Level Four Gardening Award. Well done to the young people involved and thanks RHS for the seed bundle. Now for Level 5!

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Hello @KirkintillochHS gardeners! Did you take seed potatoes home? Have you harvested them yet? If you have please could you fill out this quick tattie survey for @DandelionScot? It would be great to hear you tattie stories! 🫒🥔🌱

Our Young Stem Leaders ready to demo an experiment at last nights junior awards ceremony. They presented in front of a huge crowd of family and friends of @KirkintillochHS. Well done!! 🤩🧪🧑‍🔬

If you're coming to tonight's @KirkintillochHS BGE award ceremony there's a chance to pick up some produce from our school garden, carefully packaged up by our super young gardeners. Each bag comes with a tasty recipe from @KHSFoodTextile department.

Tomorrow we will announce our potato growing competition, so 👀 this space!

Look out for our schools @KHSFoodTextile department sharing some yummy recipes to help you cook with your potatoes.

When you're ready to cook them rub off any small spouts that have formed and give them a good scrub.

As long as the potatoes are kept in a cool, dark and frost-free environment, they will keep for many months.

Check on your potatoes regularly and remove any that are soft, shrivelled, or sprouted so they don’t cause rots.

Try not to put the potatoes in a sealed container or wrap in plastic, this will make them rot faster. You can store them in mesh bags, hessian sacks, paper bags or cardboard boxes. Don’t store them in the fridge as cold temperature damages the potatoes.

Check your potatoes for any rot or damage, these bits need to be cut away.

Once you've harvested all your potatoes, store them in a cool dark dry place. If you're not using them straight away it's better to leave them with a layer of dirt as it prevents rot.

Hello @KirkintillochHS potato growers 👋 Here's a thread on how to store your potatoes if you dont want to use them straight away.

We hope you get a bumper harvest!🥔🥔🥔 Look out for another tweet on how to store your harvested potatoes, and please share pictures of your harvest with us here!

You might also find the original seed potatoes you planted in May within the roots. They will be wrinkly and mushy, so don't eat these! You can put them in the compost or garden/food waste bin as well.

If you grew your potatoes in a bag for life, you can use a trowel to move the soil from one container to the empty one and you should find some potatoes along the way.

If you grew your potatoes in a raised bed or planter, you will need to use a garden fork to loosen the soil and dig up the potatoes. Use a garden fork instead of a spade otherwise you may damage your potatoes.

Start by pulling the plant up from the soil. There maybe some potatoes attached to the roots of the plant, remove these and put the potato plant in your compost or garden/food waste bin.

You will need garden gloves, a trowel, a garden fork and bag or container for your harvested potatoes. If you grew your potatoes in a container or bag for life, get another container to put the soil into when harvesting.