potatoes
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The heat wave broke on Thursday, and it rained all day Friday. We need the rain. I was so confident of the forecast, I did not water the garden on Thursday. It turned out I was right. I wasn’t ready for peppers, yet here they are. I picked a good number of jalapenos, as well… Read more
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In August there is plenty of extra garden produce for donations to the local food pantry. Potatoes are popular and I could easily have donated this whole bin. They all would have been taken. Potatoes are elemental. After a period of rodents eating potatoes while they were still in the ground, I decided to plant… Read more
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I planted seed potatoes on Good Friday as is tradition. It was unclear they would make it into the ground on the designated day, but they did. We enjoy a few potatoes fresh from the ground in July. Our annual consumption is about 100 pounds for two of us, so potatoes are not a dietary… Read more
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Everything aligned to plant potatoes on Good Friday as is a Midwestern garden tradition. It began with cutting seed potatoes and curing them in the garage for about ten days. I removed all but the lower four inches of soil in four containers. Adding two scoops of fertilizer to each (composted chicken manure), I stirred… Read more
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When potatoes are in season we eat them, otherwise not so much. This year I grew two varieties in four containers. I’ll get more with the fall share for which I bartered at the farm. When they run out we’re done with potatoes for the year. We boil the first new potatoes and make hash… Read more
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I like my lawn. It is a great source of mulch for the garden, although it seems like there is never enough. What is there transitions throughout the growing season. We are currently in clover and around the edges native plants come up like the ones in the photograph. These are weeds, but they look… Read more
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The idea of new potatoes is to harvest them two weeks after the flowers are finished. This is what they look like with thin skins and creamy potato goodness inside. I boiled a pound for dinner and served with butter, salt and pepper. Keeping it simple with condiment flexibility is a characteristic of our kitchen… Read more
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Rain kept vegetable farmers out of their fields. The rule of thumb is wait four days after a rain for fields to dry. It rained all day yesterday. Equipment is ready, truckloads of seed potatoes wait in bags, and farmers want them in the ground. Conditions are ready to plant any cold weather vegetable once… Read more
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A text message came March 20 while I was stopped at a traffic light in North Liberty. “In total we need 22 120s this week so you actually might be able to do it all tonight!” It was 4: 51 p.m. The combination of daylight savings time and the vernal equinox provided a window to… Read more
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