It ’s time to embed potatoes again .
Our previous potato patches were less than acceptable . Though we reaped more than we sowed , it was n’t a lot more . The “ grime ” at our previous location was unfeignedly terrible , and many of our potato were attack by boring insects , got eldritch rot and strikebreaker issues , or only failed to develop much of anything . Sometimes we ’d establish a while of potato and only reap one genus Tuber from the campaign . This in malice of fertilizing , mound the grease and institute nice , expectant , widely spaced rows . We even lurch plantings through the end of January into March , hoping to hit the perfect sweet spot of timing in at least one of our attempts .
The grease is much better here , so we ’re hoping for some comely take . Our best performing artist at the premature property was Yukon Gold , but we ’re not sure if that was a trematode , so we ’re test the four most ordinarily sold miscellanea in our area yet again .
They are : Yukon Gold , Kennebec , Red PontiacandRed La Soda .
The ground has been fed with aged moo-cow manure from our cows , as well as a sprinkle of wood ash . I desire to mix up someSolomon ’s Goldagain – we just need to inventory what we have left and what we ’re missing . It work unco well on our previous test plot of land of vegetables , though it ’s truly high effort to find all the factor and get them mixed .
We now have a underground artillery on the mix , however . With our new prop we terminate up inheriting a little electric cementum social . rather of paying a child to pour buckets of amendment back and forth to mix them , we can now dump a big quantity of everything into the barrel of the social and rent it spin for a few min , then knock down everything out into a convenient sealed trashcan we can keep near the garden . The kids really did n’t like mixing all the stale stuff , even with salary , so they wo n’t mind . In fact , they ’ll probably love using the cementum sociable once we show them how to use it .
We did find that our earliest potato planting last twelvemonth did the best , so we went ahead and plant most of our white potato over the last couple of daytime . We still have a box of live seed potatoes I bring through from last year , so those will probably get puzzle here and there through the Grocery Row Gardens as we discover space .
white potato vine are one of of very favorite things to grow . They ’re ( usually ) easy to grow , fun to grok , and of much beneficial flavor than storage - bought genus Tuber .
Wish us luck .
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