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That was just one row. Tomorrow will be another.

Also picked many cucumbers, 3 different types of tomatoes, melons, green onions, apples, cabbage, broccoli, 4 different types of peppers, zucchini and spinach.

That was just one row. Tomorrow will be another. Also picked many cucumbers, 3 different types of tomatoes, melons, green onions, apples, cabbage, broccoli, 4 different types of peppers, zucchini and spinach.

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Did you take that picture with one of them?

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I took the pic with what I could fill the sink with, they had to be washed, and processed. There was 5 of us processing them for about 7 hours.

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Mildly interesting story on how the potato famine reduced the percentage of color blindness in Ireland and increased it in Scotland: https://pic8.co/sh/Ri7ISa.png

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The potato famine killed off a good portion of both my grandmothers bloodline.

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How are your hands doing after that?

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Kinda tired we also brought down a cedar and white oak trees today. Not a straight fall so had to do it piece by peice, it was up against someones house, fence and shed. My husband is an arborist. My kid is spiderman, and I am a female tarzan tree slanger 🤣

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He used his best camera as fertilizer so he had to use his worse camera to take the photo.

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I've been trying them in containers but it is barely worth it. Any tips?

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We planted ours in the ground, and surrounded with hay, so only the top of the plant was sticking out.

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I plant near the bottom of the container and then there is layer of wood chips. They sprout and it gets bushy but not many potatoes later on.

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Don't use wood chips it pulls all the nitrates out. You have too use dirt in the container. Just enough to cover the potatoes about an inch, they will get about six inches, add more dirt up to the stem. The plant above dirt will only get 6 inches high.

These potatoes I just planted a few weeks ago (behind red stakes) I will have to add more hay soon. Will be ready for harvest by Sept. https://pic8.co/sh/nonUKO.jpg

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AOU is a jew. He loves the talmud. Everytime I call out that the germ theory is based off of the rabbinical teachings straight out of the ass wipe material he has to mess with my posts, or comment that I'm a jew.

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Sorry to hear that.

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Nice taters. I hope that they're good eating. 😊

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I love potatoes, such a great plant.

Sadly, where I am I can only get 1 season out of the ground before they start to get disease. Time to rotate I suppose.

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Nice, but how are they to store long term like through winter or do you have to cook and mason jar them to keep them from sprouting eyes and or molding up?

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We will freeze some. If you store them between 35-50 degrees they will keep long term. The ones you buy at the store are about a year old.

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I thought , no I assumed the ones in the store were fresh like a month old tops. Thanks for the info I didn't have. :)

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Do you blanch them before you freeze?

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Great! A big garden!

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How much do you keep? All of it? What do you do to preserve? Or how much of it do you sell? And where? And to whom?

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Well I'm only used to growing a meduim garden 20x40. This year is my 1st time planting large scale, and driving a Kubota 😊fun times anyways our farm is seperated into baseball field size plots.

We will freeze what we need, give some to family, friends, and feed the poor during holidays and donate to church, last years donations were over 60k meals. My husband is part owner/investor -Heritage farms. So its sold at very high dollar. You wouldn't believe the price they get for Wagyu beef 😲

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Nice. Sounds like fun. I was just laughing yesterday at a Costco ad for a 6 pound wagyu tenderloin roast. On sale for $800.

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I think you've passed the gardening phase and are well on your way to farming. Well done.

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plant potatoes, get potatoes

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I want to start next year but it's very rocky ground where I am. But I have access to plenty of manure. I suppose yams and sweet potatoes are impossible in the states?

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You can grow potatoes in car tires, don’t let it stop you. Two years ago I started with just one tire for the hell of it and I’m up to 5 this year ha! It’s addicting and easy. Also don’t sleep on the garlic

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You can grow sweet potatoes. Not yams. Where I grew my potatoes was very rocky dry ground.

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Lotta prep work?

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Not really because we have tractors about 3-4 hours tilling each -(baseball size field) added bags of fertilizer to the ground, added hay to keep ground cool. We set up a drip watering system, with fish guts in the tank. Next year we will be hauling in chicken crap to revitalize the soil and add nitrates.

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