Four schools recently visited Newbury Showground for the Planting Day of its Potato Challenge. On March 11, pupils from Robert Sandilands Primary, Mary Hare Primary, Compton Primary and Brookfields School arrived at the showground at 10am where they rotated round four activities. These included a talk about how to look after potatoes, before planting seed potatoes of Rocket and Red Duke of York varieties – the pupils had been ‘chitting them in advance in school’. They also decorated potato cakes; tasted potato salad and chocolate potato cakes; heard the story of George Crum, an American chef c…