@AllysonShaw @bearsong I second potatoes. We had great success with the Mayan Gold heritage variety, which was the first potato to be grown on these isles from the indigenous Phureja potatoes of Peru.

Forget your Maris Pipers, these make the best roasties and thick-cut chips (or fries, for Americans reading!) of any variety! Hands down. Some of the top restaurants are now recognizing this and using this variety exclusively.

If you have clay-laden soil you may want to enrich it with compost.

@ApostateEnglishman @bearsong interesting! Where did you find the seed potatoes? Online or…?

@bearsong @AllysonShaw We also had a lot of clay in our soil, which was hilarious when we got our first crop of parsnips because they all came out looking like the facehuggers from Alien(s)! Still tasty though.

After that we spent quite a bit on turning all the soil in quality compost.

@ApostateEnglishman @bearsong all hail the wonky veg! You can just say they are mandrakes, right?

@AllysonShaw @bearsong Hehehe, yes I suppose so!