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For the past two years, Nevada County Superintendent of Schools has hosted a virtual Creative Writing Competition to replace the in-person Writing Tournament, due to pandemic restrictions. This year, students,
Was this the biggest potato grown in Scotland's field crops this year? Weighing a hefty 2.5kg – or 5.5 lbs – was this the biggest potato from a field grown crop this year? Shown off by young Oliver Patterson (3), the monster Maris Piper tattie was harvested by his grand-father, Sam 'The Spud' Patterson, at Mouswald Bank, near Dumfries, before being saved from the grader just before Christmas. The giant made the chips for a family pre-Christmas dinner as it wouldn't fit into an Albert Bartlett bag! And, for the record, the biggest official potato in the world was a just under 5kg gia...