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…3 Potato

Posted on July 19, 2008 by Christy

It’s harvest time for potatoes.  For those of you who missed the previous entry about our potato growing project this year, click here to read all about it.  We continue here with part 2: potato harvesting.

It begins with a glance.  Just as one tries to avoid looking at roadkill while driving along the highway, a gardener tries to avert her eyes from dying potato foliage in the garden.  The anticipation is too great.  The promise of comfort food is too palpable to stave off the desire to investigate withering branches.  “Just a little longer,” we say to ourselves, trying to …
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1 Potato, 2 Potato…

Posted on May 30, 2008 by Christy

If there’s one thing I unwittingly repeat over and over again, it’s this:

You haven’t lived until you’ve grown your own potatoes.

Potatoes have been part of my garden for years.  They are comfort food for some, or the carb from hell for others, but aside from tomatoes, they are the quintessential vegetable (okay, tuber) to
grow as a home gardener. 

About a month ago, I planted an assortment of seed potatoes in my back yard garden.  I obtained them from Wood Prairie Farm in Maine, where they sell organic, non-GMO seed potatoes
and other organic vegetable seeds.  I was thrilled to …
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