Companion Plants For Potatoes — The year I decided to grow two tons of food, potatoes were my favorite crop. They are super easy to grow, it’s easy to grow a ton of them, and they taste great with pretty much any meal {it didn’t hurt that they drove the scale for produce grown that Read More >>
Heirloom and Fingerling Potatoes
Whenever a newbie gardener asks me what they should plant in their first garden, I always recommend planting potatoes. Dig a hole, toss in a seed potato, give it a little water, and come fall you’ll have 5 to 10 more than you planted. Growing potatoes is really that simple. Choosing which variety of potatoes to Read More >>
Weekend Pictures
Here I am pulling up the last of the 1st planting of bush beans. The first planting yielded about 50lbs of beans. I have no idea what I was thinking when I planted a second batch. At this rate we will be eating green beans with every single meal thru winter/fall/next spring. Anyone have any Read More >>
The Potatoes Are Everywhere
Along the fence….these are the only ones I am watering… Behind the tall trees… Along the back fence… In last years compost pile… In buckets… I have no idea where these are…looks like along another section of the fence… Some were in the woods…. Last winter when I was ordering my potato seed from Seed Read More >>