New Year and New Potatoes!
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pinepigs_gardenBlessed 2011 to you all! I hope your year is filled with birth, growth, peace, serenity.
To those of you in the winter climes, have you started looking at the seed catalogues and planning your spring planting? (I know at least one of you has!) Those of us in the summer lands, how is your garden growing? Faster than the weeds?
I dug around in the first Red Rascal potato bag I planted and the first Urenika bag I planted and we have new potatoes on the first day of the new year! I've only harvested about 1/4 or so of the RR bag (it had 4 seed potatoes in it). I pulled a few smallish ones out a few weeks ago (maybe 300 grams all up??). Today I've pulled a whopping 1.2 kilograms of Red Rascals out, with the largest being 300 grams and the smallest being about 10 grams. There were 10 of them.
I didn't dig around in the Urenikas as much since this was for company tomorrow and I didn't expect there to be much done in there. I was pleasantly surprised! The seed potatoes I had were tiny and I'd read that these were small potatoes. I expected things that were maybe thumb-sized. I got bigger ones! They aren't huge but will be a good size for eating. I'm looking forward to having them for dinner tomorrow. I pulled out about 325 grams of these, the largest being about 120 grams and the smallest about 20 grams. I only pulled 5 of these out. I didn't expect them to be ready yet but thought I'd do a dig around to see what I could find.
PS- I planted these Red Rascals on 21 August, not sure when I planted the Urenikas but know they were planted by 9 Oct.
There are pictures of course!
The haul:
Proud Papa:
To those of you in the winter climes, have you started looking at the seed catalogues and planning your spring planting? (I know at least one of you has!) Those of us in the summer lands, how is your garden growing? Faster than the weeds?
I dug around in the first Red Rascal potato bag I planted and the first Urenika bag I planted and we have new potatoes on the first day of the new year! I've only harvested about 1/4 or so of the RR bag (it had 4 seed potatoes in it). I pulled a few smallish ones out a few weeks ago (maybe 300 grams all up??). Today I've pulled a whopping 1.2 kilograms of Red Rascals out, with the largest being 300 grams and the smallest being about 10 grams. There were 10 of them.
I didn't dig around in the Urenikas as much since this was for company tomorrow and I didn't expect there to be much done in there. I was pleasantly surprised! The seed potatoes I had were tiny and I'd read that these were small potatoes. I expected things that were maybe thumb-sized. I got bigger ones! They aren't huge but will be a good size for eating. I'm looking forward to having them for dinner tomorrow. I pulled out about 325 grams of these, the largest being about 120 grams and the smallest about 20 grams. I only pulled 5 of these out. I didn't expect them to be ready yet but thought I'd do a dig around to see what I could find.
PS- I planted these Red Rascals on 21 August, not sure when I planted the Urenikas but know they were planted by 9 Oct.
There are pictures of course!
The haul:
Proud Papa:
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Date: 2011-01-01 11:33 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-01-02 01:07 am (UTC)I don't think I could survive without some bit of garden, even if it was just a small wooden box or 2. It's a part of my stress relief, part of my soul-nourishment as well as my body. I don't garden on a large scale so I don't provide all my own food (or even a portion of it really) but I like to have fresh tomatoes and herbs as well as the occassional carrot or spinach. And now potato!
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Date: 2011-01-02 01:12 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-01-02 01:30 am (UTC)I didn't do so well with the mushrooms myself and have decided to not keep it going. I'll see if anything comes of the 2nd set I started, no real hopes on that though. Too much work and I've decided to put my energy into the other plants.
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Date: 2011-01-02 03:37 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-01-02 09:02 am (UTC)