In the Cursed Sand Pit of Death , as I call our late rental place , we grew a lot of Irish potato .
Yet the yield was pathetic ! We scantily beat the amount of seed we put in , despite seek to ameliorate the ground . We used Medicago sativa , compost , report crops and even 10 - 10 - 10 to try and develop decent potatoes . Though the plants often bet good , the root word yields were poor . Many were scabby , rotten , take with germ maw , tiny , or otherwise unuseable .
This year , however , we have comely ground thanks to our move to our own homestead . The soil here actually looks like territory , rather than weird , powdery guts with river crushed rock in it . The weeds , grass and Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree here originate fatheaded and green .
And the spud are doing the same . We pull up a few exam plants beforehand of the harvesting schedule , just to see what we have .
The Adirondack down in the mouth potatoes we implant in the yam plant words seem to be producing famously , if we can judge by the one flora we pull out .
That ’s much good than our old potato yield . We were prosperous to double the germ we implant .
The existent trial of potatoes is of course to make hashbrowns .
Here ’s a shredded blue potato :
dozens of anthocyanins there !
Our chef took these shreds and fried them in bacon fat :
make up perfect hasbrowns :
From the discipline to the plate is about one hundred feet . Not bad !
They were pleasant-tasting , by the direction . I ’m quite happy to see that these aristocratical murphy have decided to do well for us . The bed I plant them in was full of crappy grass from when the bed was till and mounded up in the grade of making the Grocery Row Gardens .
Meanwhile , I have other dustup of white potato that are almost quick . We pulled a single trial potato flora in each of the Kennebec , Yukon Gold , Red La Soda and Pontiac row .
Of these , the Yukon Gold plant life we pulled had by far the best issue .
This is as expected , since they were also the top do at The Cursed Sand Pit of Death .
Our potato row this year were fed with a small ashes and some manure tilled into the ground . Nothing serious . And yet , they are doing much better than the potatoes we worked so firmly to get at the rental belongings .
Soil is everything ! I ca n’t wait to see how well we do after a few years of building this ground and adding compost . We ’ve finally get enough materials to make lot of compost , plus we have cow that are induce stacks of manure .
God is secure . We are blessed with ground that will grow potatoes !
We ’ll see how the final yield tally up in a month or so when it ’s clock time for the final harvest .
