When Per Henrik Guddal was visited by his family for the weekend, he made a small plan to surprise them and activate them a little with the harvest in the fields.

One way is to look for potatoes dug at home from the potato warehouse to guess their weight.

– I had a plan when Son’s grandchildren Ellinor and Petra checked the potato stocks in the cellar, says Per Henrik, who moved back to Buslåtta on Vestre Solberg in Tvedestrand about 11 years ago.

Hobby gardener

He himself was reared on a small farm of his own, and in his outhouse there is a manure barn in which the horses of the Holt agricultural school have in former years produced a fine product which has become a splendid mold throughout the decades in which it has been produced. left to mix with wood chips and create life.

– I use some wheelbarrows to fertilize the soil and I can grind them into the soil, and I have eaten a lot of large potatoes this year. But the last one, the biggest one, “never ends” when I have to dig it up, he said.

Family competition

So when the family visited this weekend there was a guessing contest, and one of the questions was guessing the weight of a potato.

– How heavy?

– 566 grams. This may not be a record, but for our little Petra, these are very big potatoes!

According to Framtida.no, the world’s largest potato was discovered in 2021 in New Zealand, by couple Donna and Colin Craig-Brown.

On their property, they found a potato that weighed almost eight kilograms and was about to be registered in the Guinness World Records.