Early on this year, p4 planted some potatoes as part of the Super Sonic Spuds Project organised by the RHET.
On Monday this week we were excited to harvest our potatoes.
You can read our posts about the project here and see us taking part in the photos below.
Mr McEwan
This morning on Monday 19th of June 2017 we Matthew and Alasdair helped Mr McEwan by showing a group at a time how to weigh the potato harvest from the potato plant left outside.
Continue reading P4 Weighing our harvested potatoes By Matthew S and Alasdair F
We went outside to see the potato plant that we had grown outside.
We actually saw some really big potatoes!! Sandy & Joshua lifted the potatoes out!
Then we all went right in to get some potatoes!
Continue reading The potato plant that was outside By Lola & Hannah
We went into the nursery garden today, and cut open the plastic bottles we had kept in the classroom with scissors. We found in Bottle One: 3 small potatoes, but no big potatoes.
In Bottle Two we found: 7 small potatoes, but no big potatoes AGAIN!!!!
Continue reading Bottle Potato Harvest!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! By Martha C and Ruby L!!!!!!
We planted some rocket potatoes before Spring for the competition.
On Monday we harvested them and weighed the potatoes.
The biggest potato was 115 grams and the smallest was 5 grams from the ones we harvested from the plant that grew outdoors.
In super sonic spuds we were excited when the one outside has reached 1 Metre tall!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So it all started when Mr M put us into a challenge. We planted the potatoes but we did not know how to plant them so Mr M told a farmer. So the famer came to show us how to plant them. Then we took turns to water the potatoes. So that is how this started OH YEAH I FORGOT WE DO A WORK SHEET TO REPORT WHAT WE’VE DONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!What we did was we put three potatoes in bottles to see them grow and put one of them upside down and one outside that is the one that reached 1 metre.
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We have left the potatoes in the eggbox at the window.
During the holidays we put them in the nursery to get light.
We noticed they are growing sprouts from the eyes.
P4 were excited to start their ‘Super Sonic Spuds’ Project last Friday. This is organised by the Royal Highland Educational Trust and will take place between now and summer. The pupils are having an opportunity to plant their own crop of potatoes and watch and learn about growing them before we harvest them.
Potatoes for eating and seed potatoes are grown in Scotland and East Lothian is one of the main areas in Scotland that grows them.
We are planting potatoes and will take part in some competitions to see how we get on.
The potatoes are supplied by Denholm Potato Growers of East Lothian and on 6th March James Wyllie from Ruchlaw Produce will visit P4 to help us plant the potatoes. We are planting Rocket Potatoes.
Denholm Potato Growers grow and supply potatoes to farms and garden centres such as Dobbies and other places across the United Kingdom.
Last Friday we chitted the potatoes. This meant we chose the 6 largest potatoes and put them in an egg box at the window. We put them there so they could get light but not next to a heater as we did not want them to be too warm.
Over the next few weeks they should start to ‘chit’ which means sprouts will develop from the potato eyes. Later on we will plant them indoors then outside when the weather is suitable.
As we were supplied with 12 potatoes but can only use 6 for the project we gave the rest of them to the nursery to plant.
We will keep you updated as to how we get on and what we do next.
Mr McEwan