We ate the first asparagus of the season on Monday night.

Today it’s the “last” of the Pink Fir Apple homegrown salad potatoes stored since last summer. They are the best salad potatoes ever.

We first started growing them on our Devon smallholding over 47 years ago. During our subsequent 30 years in London I saw them only twice in Sainsbury supermarket – where they were on sale in small plastic packets for high prices and only available for a couple of weeks. I bought them but they didn’t taste as good as our own. I will savour the potato salad tonight and look forward to the new potato season.