potatoes

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2022 Potato Crop – Golden Globes

2022 Potato Crop – Golden Globes

The spuds are in! 50 pounds of Golden Globes, an alternative to Yukon Gold, went into the ground last weekend, our biggest planting yet. We ordered a bit late so didn’t have a ton of options available to us but decided that the Golden Globes (an alternative to Yukon Golds) sounded yummy and should keep well enough through the coldest…
April 13, 2022
2013 Potato Harvest

2013 Potato Harvest

Well, despite our best efforts and great plans, our potato harvest this year has been another failure.  Let's look at the numbers:German ButterballPlanted - 5 lbsHarvested - 3 lbs 1 ozAll BluePlanted - 2.5 lbsHarvested - 2 lbs 14 ozSweet Our sweet potatoes were a bonus this year as they were only planted after a piece of a sweet potato was…
October 21, 2013
2013 Potatoes

2013 Potatoes

Our success with backyard grown potatoes has been mixed.  Our first year, we were mildly successful with the few random sprouting potatoes we had in the pantry that we stuck in some dirt.  Not very intentional, but it worked out OK and we got a few yummy spuds for our effort.The second year, we purchased some German Butterballs from Seed…
April 14, 2013
The Not-So-Great Potato Harvest

The Not-So-Great Potato Harvest

I had high hopes for our potatoes this year.  I purchased 10 pounds of German Butterball seed potatoes last spring and added them to a few random (sprouting) potatoes we had laying around (a few red and a few purple).  We had new beds and old beds to plant them in as well as a few garbage cans for the…
November 28, 2012
Harvest Monday

Harvest Monday

Happy Monday, everyone!This week brought us a few more potatoes and the surprise of a pie pumpkin and a Roma tomato that were hiding beneath the potato leaves!  Amazingly, both the pumpkin and the tomato are completely fine, despite the multiple freezes we've had over the past couple of weeks!  I guess they were "mulched" perfectly by the leaves :-)I…
November 19, 2012
Harvest Monday

Harvest Monday

Happy Monday everyone!I missed last weeks Harvest Monday because I was in Milwaukee visiting my very best friend in the world!  We were watching Sandy hammer the east coast, eating good (comfort) food, painting and enjoying the wonder that 20+ years of friendship brings :-)But I digress...I must catch up on harvesting and tallying...that's what you're here for, aren't you?…
November 5, 2012