Transcript Crofting Connections Tatties

Heritage Potatoes
Edzell Blue
Shetland Black
British Queen
Fortyfold
Isle of Jura
Planting the
tatties.
We had 5 varieties of tatties to plant.
These are the Edzell Blue ones growing in our
school garden.
Once the leaves began to show we
banked the earth up around the plants.
When the tatties were ready for picking
we went out and gathered them in.
Some of the
tatties we
grew were
white and
some were
purple.
We had to
find out
which kind
was which.
In groups we washed the tatties.
Next we sorted the tatties into the
different varieties.
We got a good number of each type of tattie.
We weighed the
different types
to see which crop
weighed the most.
We weighed the tatties and found
that:
Fortyfold
1 kg 625g
Edzell Blue
1 kg 230g
Shetland Black
850g
British Queen 3 kg 340g
Isle of Jura
1 kg 585g
We counted to see how many of each
variety we had.
When we counted the different
varieties of tatties we found we
had:
81 – Fortyfold
71 Edzell Blue
50 Shetland Black
70 British Queen
43 Isle of Jura
The school cook let us boil the tatties in
the school kitchen.
We tried the
different types
and said which
one we liked
best.
The one
which most
people liked
best was
British
Queen.
The tatties
which were left
from our
tasting session
were made into
tattie scones
which we all
tried.
We wrote
comments
about the
different
potatoes we
tasted without
knowing which
kind they were.
The most popular tattie was British Queen.
Some of the comments about this one
were:
Really nice, tasty, light and fluffy, good,
smells good but tastes funny, I like this
one the best, sweet, amazing, tastes good
but soft, better than all of them, my
favourite so far, I like the taste of a soft
tattie, brilliant.
We filled in the form from
Crofting Connections to
record information about
our tattie growing project.
We really enjoyed this
project and it involved a lot
of different kinds of
activities.
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