Potatoes!

I really tried to exhibit restraint. But our garden store had over 20 kinds of potatoes. I went in early in the season before I had gotten a hold of myself. So I got 11 different kinds - all good keepers. I'm notoriously bad about keeping track of varieties of things. I just want to pop them into the ground and eat them later, but sometimes, most times, it comes in handy to know which variety is which for the next year. What to plant again, what to skip. So I am trying to be better about this. So I took pictures of every variety and also charted out what is planted where.


Figuring out how we were going to till this year was becoming an issue. We recently met our neighbor who has goats, chickens, geese and ducks. He is building from scratch a 44 foot catamaran to sail the world. It's very impressive. I quickly scanned his blog, the pictures do not do justice to its enormity. Anyway I asked him yesterday if he had a tiller we could borrow. He offered to bring his tractor over and till for us! It took him 10 minutes what would have taken Aaron hours.


The potatoes. Oops there are 42 of them. I haven't decided if I am really crazy, or just really planning ahead. I'd like to grow more food to get us through the winter. Last year the potatoes were gone before fall.


The only problem. Our neighbor only went over the garden once. So only the top 2-3 inches are tilled. I'm not sure what we are going to do about this yet. Today though, Aaron dug me 44 holes (2 for the strawberry plants I salvaged from the garden before the tractor went through).


The chickens were thrilled to go on a field trip.


The cute sign our neighbor left for us.


Potato graves


These girls were more than happy to go through the previously dug areas - lots of worms!


Aaron leading the ladies home for the night.


It's supposed to rain this weekend, but hopefully it will be light so we can keep getting plants in the ground.