Potato Economics

As Peter posted yesterday, we harvested our first crop of the potatoes for the season. Although he included a photo to show how much, I thought it was a bit hard to really see how many we got (especially when you don't know the size of the box we had them in). So in the process of packing them away I've done some sorting and weighing, and have included the relevant statistics below:

Total Yield = 6.814kg

Broken down by quality:
3.369kg of perfect potatoes
2.934kg of damaged potatoes (ie. got damaged when forking them out of the soil or split while they were growing) - still edible, we will just have to eat them first as they will spoil quickly
0.511 of potatoes we won't eat (1 potato that is inedible and then 8 potatoes we are going to use as seed potatoes for another crop - these would otherwise have been included with the perfect potatoes)

We paid $6 for the 1kg of seed potatoes, so the crop has worked out at $0.89/kg (if you add on the cost of some fertiliser and water that we used to help them grow, probably works out at about $1/kg). And they are guaranteed to taste better than potatoes you buy from the supermarket! (we know from the taste difference we experienced last year)