{"id":30603,"date":"2022-10-22T09:29:35","date_gmt":"2022-10-22T07:29:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?p=30603"},"modified":"2022-10-22T09:29:36","modified_gmt":"2022-10-22T07:29:36","slug":"dads-potatoes-life-goes-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?p=30603","title":{"rendered":"Dad&#8217;s potatoes &#8211; life goes on!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I harvested the last potatoes yesterday. This variety is Sharpe&#8217;s Express, an English variety from 1900 developed by a Mr. Sharpe in Lincolnshire. Although an early variety, I planted them late in June just before I left for my Dad&#8217;s funeral. He had told me that he grew this variety during the war and having a few seed left it felt right to plant them &lt;3 Historically, this is a variety commonly grown in Norway and rated by many as the best tasting of all varieties. Surprisingly, they didn&#8217;t get blight. I got these as virus-cleaned mini tubers as part of KVANN&#8217;s (Norwegian Seed Savers) potato project.<br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-30604 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/PA218786.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"595\" height=\"540\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/PA218786.jpg 595w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/PA218786-300x272.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 595px) 100vw, 595px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I harvested the last potatoes yesterday. This variety is Sharpe&#8217;s Express, an English variety from 1900 developed by a Mr. Sharpe in Lincolnshire. Although an early variety, I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"views":1546,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30603"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30605,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30603\/revisions\/30605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}