[AT] new spuds

[Herbert Metz]

Ron & Dudley
If memory serves, a very successful Indiana gardener neighbor always mulched 
part of his potato patch with a thick layer of wheat (?) straw and planted 
those potatoes very shallow.  The primary reason was to facilitate early 
harvest without sacrificing the entire plant; he just used his hand.  This 
worked well for him.
Herb

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ronald L. Cook" <rlcook at pionet.net>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Monday, July 11, 2005 12:47 AM
Subject: RE: [AT] new spuds


> Dudley,
>         What I found under each plant were two nice baseball sized 
> potatoes and many marble sized.  Something to do with the growing season, 
> I suppose.  I hate to use up a whole plant for two potatoes when the plant 
> will have eight or ten by fall.  And of course you are right.  Our own are 
> just better.
>
> Ron Cook
> Salix, IA
>
>>A friend just stopped by and his answer was, "go to the farmer's market 
>>and
>>buy some new potatoes that someone else has picked.  Save yours for
>>winter."  Now I wonder why the heck I didn't think of that one?
>>
>>Yeah, but isn't the fun of gardening being able to eat your' own stuff ...
>>Seriously, I know I must be missing something in this thread but couldn't
>>you just dig all the potatoes out of one hill and not worry about saving 
>>the
>>plant and then from the marble size to golf ball size just throw all of 
>>them
>>in the pan with the peas and new carrots?  When Fall comes maybe you would
>>still have plenty of untouched hills to dig up as mature potatoes.  For 
>>the
>>many years we had a garden that's the way we did it but maybe that wasn't
>>the most efficient way to do it.
>>
>>Dudley
>>Snohomish, Washington
>
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