Well, It seems like forever ago since I started the posts about the potato experiment that my friend Kenny and I were going to do over the summer. Things got busy and complicated and we have all been taking care of business. I have a few minutes before I close up the office for the [...]
Archive for the ‘Potatoes’ Category
…Seven Potato More…
Posted in Guest Gardeners, Potatoes, Re-Purposed, Vegetables, tagged blue potatoes, Bucket Potatoes, French Fingerlings, garden, garden blog, Harvest, Potatoes, raised beds, Re-purposed, recycle on November 12, 2010 | 2 Comments »
…Five Potato, Six Potato…
Posted in Guest Gardeners, Poetry & Borrowed Words, Potatoes, Vegetables, tagged camping potatoes, Catile Soap insect spray, Dr. Bronner's, Eucalyptus oil, inch worm, Louisa May Alcott, money, Potato Plant, Potatoes, raised bed, root of all evil on June 6, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
“Money is the root of all evil, and yet it is such a useful root that we cannot get on without it any more than we can without potatoes.” Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888), American novelist As promised, an update from Kenny for the Potato Experiment!: “They are growing quite well in my raised beds. As [...]
…three potato, four…
Posted in Potatoes, Vegetables, tagged blue potatoes, chit, garden, Idaho potatoes, Potatoes, raised bed on April 25, 2010 | 4 Comments »
A few months ago, my dear friend Lucie told me she had a friend I MUST meet. She said he was a gardening nerd like me and that we would get along famously. Thanks to the modern miracle that is Facebook, we have indeed become long distance gardening buddies, and we get along famously! Kenny [...]
One potato, two potato…
Posted in Potatoes, Re-Purposed, Vegetables, tagged almanac, cat litter bucket, Charles Dickens, garden potatoes, Potatoes, repurposed, seed potatoes on April 10, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes and prism, are all very good words for the lips. ~ Charles Dickens My almanac tells me that the best time to plant potatoes is when the moon is waning in Pisces. Well, that’s today! Thankfully, the seed potatoes I ordered from Seed Savers Exchange had already sprouted and were quite [...]
