Asinete and I have been busy the last few days and night cutting our 500 pounds of seed potatoes into small pieces so that they can be dried in our garage(above) and then planted into the ground in the next few days. This year we are trying our hand at several varieties as the potatoes thrive here in our wonderful loamy soil. We will be growing Bintje, Norkotah Russets, Yellow Finn, Rose Finn, French fingerling, Banana fingerling and the great all around potato Yukon gold. Potatoes are fairly trouble free to grow. They also require little weeding as you keep hilling them up (adding more soil around them as they grow up) so that the baby potatoes do not get exposed to the sunlight and turn green. When potatoes are exposed to sunlight and turn green they become somewhat toxic so we want to avoid that! For those of you who would like to lend a hand in planting we still are hoping to have several CSA planting days. We are just waiting for the weather to settle a bit.
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