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#potatoes

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Kolokoko Bird!

Last year I got some purple fingerling starter potatoes, but didn't get them planted in time. They were wizened, and months late, by the time I put them in the ground. Oh well, right? We did get a few small potatoes, but that was kinda it. I was not surprised.

I am surprised now, though, to find a lot of potato plants growing. I did not plant them. Some of those purple guys must have been left in the soil last fall, and, um. I have a potato enterprise going here now, kids. It is impressive. It makes me look like a successful and organized gardener.

Don't tell.

#gardening#potatoes
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Y⃒̸̷̝̜̙ͥͥͥngmar

Little break in the rain.

Split another trailer of firewood. Getting a bit muddy around the chopping block.

Hacked my way through the weeds around the potato beds. I've never seen weeds grow so fast, but then it has been raining a quite unreasonable amount lately, and this garden was abandoned wilderness until this spring.

A lot more weeds in the dig beds than in the hay covered no-dig, but the no-dig is much younger and only starting to sprout, so can't compare directly.

The long, thin volunteer maples I cut out of the fence have been made into poles for peas.

A piece of ground, well trampled and muddy brown from the same pair of boots walking back and forth a lot. There's a large chopping block and some logs laying on the ground.
A jungle-like garden with some unkempt areas in the back and a freshly weeded area with conventional potato beds. Further on the right, a hay covered area with no-dig potato beds. A few wooden signs declare various potato types. A head on a stick oversees the mess. The big potato bed has been freshly weeded by some maniac with a sharp tool. The weeds are chopped to pieces or separated from the roots and lay on the ground. The potato plants in between are of various sizes, with one row on the left virtually nonexistant, others big and healthy.
A small potato plant sprouting out between hay and straw. A small green plant (not potato) lurks behind.
A few maple sticks on the ground, one quite bendy from growing through a fence. They've been debranched and sharpened with a hatchet. Some rubber boots stand next to them.
#Garden#Gardening#Homestead
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Helena

I’m not too strong on history, but on reading an “on this day” I realise I have a fixed point (of about 100 years) that European history is divided by in my head.
It’s the “before/after potatoes” divide.
That old guy that did a thing? He lived without eating potatoes.

Skirrets were the winter storage starch before potatoes and it took 50-100 years before potatoes gradually ousted skirrets after their introduction.

No potatoes- can you imagine?
#skirrets #potatoes

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DoomsdaysCW

Planted my little "satanic" potatoes today (along with some other ones that were raring to go). After trying to grow bigger white potatoes and little red potatoes in containers last year, I had a lot more luck with the little red potatoes (which are my favorites). So I saved some of the ones that were too small to eat and planted some of them about 4 weeks ago in big containers. I planted some last week that are just starting to leaf out, and then a bunch more today.

A small red potato with two "horns" on a wood cutting board. In the background are other sprouted potatoes.
A pot containing three potato plants, which have developed full green leaves.
#SolarPunkSunday#Gardening#Potatoes
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Willow!

Happy International Day of the Potato!

🥔🥔🥔🥔🥔

Feliz día internacional de las patatas!

Oregon and Washington, together with Idaho, produce most of frozen french fries in the world.

If you order fries at McD in Asia, you can be sure the fries came from Lamb-Weston in Kennewick, WA. 🍟

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