Competitive potato growing. What will they give as homework next?!

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DS brought home a pot last half term which was supposed to be nurtured into a healthy potato plant ready to take back to school to weigh the potatoes.

It was shoved in a corner of the garden and we've now retrieved the pot to find a sad looking v limp plant with holes in lots of the leaves. Anything a competitive mum can do to revive it?

how long ya got?

i meant to fix the plant?

Couple of weeks... Am resigned to telling him its not the winning its the taking part!!!

Pop to the garden centre and buy a new one!

Yes, competitive mum can learn that if you neglect to nurture, you can't win. Unless you cheat

As you can tell we're not a gardening family! Surely you can't buy a fully grown potato plant? Why would people do that when you can go to your greengrocers and get them clean, weighed and in a crisp brown paper bag?!

i dont know if you can buy them ready grown? but you could grow a whole new one in about three ish weeks from a seed potato but he would have nice new salad potatoes rather than bakers thats all.
you would have to feed it though and water it religiously.

How old is DS?

What if it was a different type of potato from the rest of the classes? Wouldn't be able to face the school run ever again!

buy some new potatoes from the supermarket and bury them in the soil below the wilting one?

nightynight - genius!

Erm, won't they notice that the potatoes are not actually attached to the plant

Have you had a dig around to make sure there aren't any potatoes there?

How big was the pot?
How are you supposed to take the whole plant back to school? A good healthy potato plant can be quite some size, let alone all the soil and potatoes.