Today, the weather was sunny and warm, with occasional light breezes. So after we harvested beans, kale, summer squash, and herbs, we got to work putting seed potatoes into the ground. Why so late? you ask. Well, Claire and Jake say they've had more success delaying the potato planting and missing the ravaging effects of the Colorado potato beetle than planting when everyone else does in May. I remember thinking last year that our potatoes would probably be pretty small compared to everyone else's. Not true! Ours sized up nicely.
We cut our Red Norland and Carola potatoes into evenly sized chunks, each with an eye, and laid them out in 100 foot beds at a foot apart. Today we got them into the ground, but we still need to hill them up and mulch them. I think we planted 14 or 15 beds, so roughly 1400 potatoes were planted.
The beautiful weather is supposed to continue... until Monday... of course (grumble, grumble).
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