All the children have been nurturing their spuds in buckets since February as well as learning how plants grow and where their food comes from. They’ve also been finding out the history of the Island’s famous spuds and youngsters at St Lawrence proved they’ve learnt a lot – winning the prize for the best course work.
Judges have been going round the schools weighing the potatoes and counting up the number of tubers all week and the winners were revealed at a grand weigh-in at St Mary’s Parish Hall on Friday morning.
Connétable Juliette Gallichan proved she could cultivate the biggest crop in the Constables’ competition and made it a double-win, growing the most tubers too.
Connect Magazine journalist Gwyn Garfield-Bennett gave the other media a roasting with a hat trick win, retaining her title for the heaviest spuds for the third year running and winning the prize for the most tubers.
The event is part of Jersey Tourism’s Jersey Food Festival which not only celebrates Jersey Royals but also the Island’s dairy products and seafood.