[AT] digging potatoes

[David Bruce]

My maternal grandparents lived on a red clay hill and he was quite 
successful growing sweet potatoes.  Even so I'm sure they do better in 
sandy soil.  I usually buy mine at the Greensboro location of the state 
farmers' market.  I can't grow better quality and the cost for me to 
grow the amount I use over the winter is greater if I grow rather than buy.

David
NW NC

On 7/1/2013 10:06 PM, jtchall at nc.rr.com wrote:
> Glad to know what the straw was used for!
>
> My uncle grew some sweet potatoes  one year, I think just to see what would
> happen. He cured them in one of the tobacco bulk barns, don't know if he put
> any heat on them or just ran the fan a few days. Nobody around here grows
> them, I guess the red clay here doesn't do so hot with them.
>
> John Hall
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Bruce
> Sent: Monday, July 01, 2013 5:23 AM
> To: Antique tractor email discussion group
> Subject: Re: [AT] digging potatoes
>
> My paternal grandfather has a darkened room in the tobacco packhouse
> that was the storage spot.  The use of straw was to insulate the
> potatoes from winter freezes.  Often as we were preparing to store the
> current year's potatoes there would still be some store potatoes
> remaining from the previous season.  Even after that length of storage
> they were in decent shape.
>
>
> David
> NW NC
>
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