Potatoes and people filled Drimpton Village Hall for the 5th Annual Potato Day. Pennard Plants filled the centre of the hall, with clearly labelled buckets containing a wide range of potatoes to suit most soils and tastes. There were also fruit bushes, asparagus crowns, rhubarb, onions, shallots, garlic and a huge variety of Heritage & Heirloom Vegetable Seeds.
Plenty of good advice was on hand, plus an opportunity (which 30 people took) to enter the annual Potato Growing Competition - the weigh-in on Show Day, 11th August, should be interesting, if the techniques and tips on getting a good crop from just one seed potato, that I overheard, are anything to go by. The variety of the seed potato supplied by Pennards for the competition this year was Lady Christl (not a spelling mistake - have a look on the European Cultivated Potato Database).
It wasn't all spuds and snacks, on stage there was much shaping of potato prints and application of paint to produce Drimpton's own version of that picture of happiness: Van Gogh's Sunflowers. (Have a look at the National Gallery page - our effort is not on it - yet!)
Teas, breakfasts, lunches, cakes, coffees and friendly smiles crossed the counter from the kitchen from early-on till the last visitor left for home. There is quite a team who work hard to put this on, but the fun and interest makes that all worth while.
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| Ready for visitors |
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| Gathering gardeners and growers |
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| Potato Growing Competition |
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| Potato Prints |
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| Baskets, buckets and bushels? |
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| Children of all ages |
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| Drimpton Sunflowers |
