#Growing Potatoes

[wildrungarden]

I actually did grow potatoes this year, and for my first time… I’m really happy about the turnout! 🥔

[askwhatsforlunch]

Rosemary Hasselback Potatoes

Crispy outside and fluffy inside, like any good roasted spud, these beautifully decorative Rosemary Hasselback Potatoes make a delicious side to your Sunday Roast! Have a good one!

Ingredients (serves 3):

half a dozen large Garden Potatoes 

3 fluffy sprigs fresh rosemary

4 medium garlic cloves

about 3 tablespoons olive oil

1 teaspoon fleur de sel or sea salt flakes

1/2 teaspoon freshly cracked black pepper

Preheat oven to 200°C/395°F.

Thoroughly scrub and rinse the Potatoes, then peel them.

Holding a Potato firmly in your hand, use a sharp knife to cut very thin slices without going all the way through, so the Potato remains whole.

Repeat with remaining Potatoes.

Cut two of the rosemary sprigs in half, and remove the leaves of the third into a large roasting tin.

Crush garlic cloves, and add to the tin.

Add prepared Potatoes to the tin. Drizzle generously with olive oil, and rub them thoroughly, including between their "slices", to coat well in oil, rosemary and garlic.

Season well with fleur de sel and black pepper.

Place tin in the middle of the hot oven, and roast, at 200°C/395°F, for one hour, until cooked through and golden brown and crispy on top.

These Rosemary Hasselback Potatoes make an excellent side to Roast Turkey or Roast Beef.

[balkanradfem]

So we finally had a nice sunny Saturday, and I went to the community garden, for the first time in months, to plant potatoes! I haven't been for a long time because we had proper, cold winter here; freeze every night, and it snowed twice. And when the ground is frozen overnight and it snows a lot, plants aren't growing that much, so leaving them unattended for a month is fine.

When I got there, the soil was nice and soft and perfect for spring planting. Here's my method of planting potatoes:

First I dig little holes, each for one potato, and I put the potatoes in those holes. It does not need to be deep. Then, instead of burying them, I add a bunch of mulch on top – what I had with me were tree leaves. It can be straw or hay or any half-composted organic material. I've done this for 2 years and it does the job beautifully every time. When potatoes grow their leaves out, you add more mulch on top, so the potatoes can keep producing. They put some roots into the ground, but they produce all of the potatoes in the leaves, so that you don't have to dig them out, you can just feel your hand into the leaves and pull out grown potatoes. That saves a lot of labour! It also lets me spy on the tubers, and I love spying.

I haven't made a garden plan yet, so I just randomly picked few spots and planted about 20 potatoes, these are going to be ready to eat in the beginning of summer. I'll plant more in the fields on another sunny day.

[ediblegardenspointloma]

The Potato Harvest

It was a small yield of Yukon Gem potatoes planted in late February and harvested three months later.

I’m always up for a garden experiment. Lacking sufficient space to plant the seed potatoes in my raised beds, I used three five gallon black plastic containers with reasonable success.

My husband did FaceTime with my grandsons, five and two while I dumped the pots and pulled out the potatoes. I remember my own sons rummaging in the soil for new potatoes. On a recent trip to my son’s home in Ipswich, Massachusetts I delivered about half of the potatoes for the family’s enjoyment.

Read about my experiment and see photos in Growing Potatoes. Next year I’ll make room in my raised beds for Yukon Gem potatoes and expect a larger harvest.

Our Yukon Gem potatoes had a thin, delicate skin and a buttery, creamy texture. I simply steamed them and they maintained their color well. They would make a delightful summer potato salad.

[microfarmdesigns]

The difference between tree cover and no tree cover in a late spring frost potato greens.

[mentalfitness1]

Growing Your Own Potatoes at Home!

I think I finally cracked the code on growing potatoes. if you grow potatoes in buckets, the key is to add dirt as the plant grows larger. This gives the potatoes more room to keep growing. So remember: if you have potatoes at home and they start to sprout, put them in 5 gallon grow bags and keep the soil moist. Thee’s nothing like growing your own food! Health Benefits of Potatoes Take a look…

[xinesegalas]

The Earthy Alchemist

🌱 Unleash your inner Earthy Alchemist and join me on a gardening adventure! 🌿 Get ready to dig into the secrets of green thumbs and uncover the magic of nature. Check out my first article on Xine's Pack and let's grow together! 🌼🌿 #gardeningtips

Welcome to “The Earthy Alchemist,” where we dive headfirst into the captivating world of gardening and the wonders of the natural realm. As the dandelions bloom and nature signals the perfect time to plant potatoes, I can’t help but feel like an excited child at the window. Although Mark and I have retired from our gardening business, Homegrown Harvest, our passion for gardening knows no bounds.…

[x-crowmancer-x]

Enderpookie seems a bit different >:/??

[cookiedough77]

i forgot i can make normal text posts so im gonna do this more often because i think about miraculous daily:

when marinette and adrien play minecraft, marinette is the PRO at many aspecs of the game, while adrien WANTS/THINKS he can do well and then he ends up gathering flowers, chopping down trees for marinette, grows the crops, and then he sobs uncontrollably when he has to kill an animal

[wildrungarden]

5/6/24 ~ Potatoes are finally here! 🥔

[askwhatsforlunch]

Growing and Gardening: Growing Potatoes

I had attempted to grow potatoes before, and even harvested a few; but no attempt was as successful as this year’s! And I’m not even done digging yet!

It all started on a cold January day. A local farmer was going around neighbourhoods in my town, selling his produce. A bit pricey perhaps; but excellent quality, and because he only sold in large amounts, I ended up with some twenty-five kilos of potatoes (in addition to fifteen of carrots, ten of white and five of red onions!)

It kept rather well in the garage, and the vegetables were delicious. But even in the dead of Winter, there are so many potatoes two people can eat!

Thus they started shrivelling and growing sprouts! Perfect, I thought; then, I could plant them!

And so I did! On the 29th of March, I prepared the place I would plant them in, a large iron garden bin, where I had grown and harvested the last of the Mesclun. One thing to always remember when growing vegetables is to rotate your crops; you cannot grow the same type of vegetables in the same spot two years in a row. The previous crop will have taken most the the nutrients they need, leaving very little left in the soil, and your next harvest, if any, might not be as bountiful... Luckily, different crops need different nutrients from the soil they grow in; hence the rotation. Tubers (like potatoes), for instance, will appreciate a soil formerly hosting brassicaceae (like cabbage, kale, etc...) or leafy greens (like lettuce or spinach).

I tilled the soil thoroughly, and mixed in good soil and compost to amend it. I left it for a few days.

Then, on the 4th of April, I planted my sprouted potatoes. I had eight (8) of them, and arranged four (4) on two levels, so the bottom ones would not be right underneath the top ones. There was about 15cm/5.5″ of soil mixture between both levels.

I covered them with about as much soil mixture (15cm/5.5″). I watered thoroughly. It is also important to have a good drainage, if you grow potatoes in a container, or they will rot. A few years back, I had hammered in four holes in this iron bin, and it wasn’t easy; but very much worth the effort! 

Then, I watered regularly only when the April showers were scarce! After a couple of weeks, potato stalks and leaves were starting growing in the bin.

And after a month and a half (on the 16th of May), they were tall and luscious and very leafy!!! From then on, it is very easy to take care of them. Water when the soil gets dry to the touch, trim the leaves a little when they become yellow.

You can also sow herbs at the  feet of your potatoes. They may improve their taste and protect them against aphids. Cilantro and thyme are good companions. I only managed a very small bunch of Cilantro. Because they are in a bin, and the Cilantro stalks are significantly thinner and smaller than the potatoes’; they do not get as much light as they would if you planted and sowed in a Veg Patch.

That said, harvesting potatoes in a bin is heaps more convenient! You know where they all are; you just need to dig them out!

I dug about 840 grams/1.85 pound New Potatoes (harvested about three and a half month after planting); and left the greenest, leafiest stalks in the bin to harvest later, and perhaps have bigger spuds! I might also try to sow more, as there is enough light for it now!

I am so happy with this harvest of small (some really tiny!) to medium Garden Potatoes, though. Their skin is thin, and once scrubbed, don’t they look pretty?And their flesh is beautiful and tasty!

[canisalbus]

My sibling couldn't remember Machete's name and kept calling him Hatchet, so then we started imagining Machete's distant cousin from the countryside. Hatchet does not understand politics nor does he have an opinion on religion, all Hatchet knows is potatoes and chickens. And dirt.

Hatchet sounds like a stand up guy.

[greenhorizonblog]

Know your permaculture guilds

[juniper-clan]

WIP! What’s Amber so shy about?

[bonecarversbestie]

I think the reason Elain didn’t have the same disdain for Papa Archeron’s carvings as her sisters is that she also understands the importance of making something beautiful in a dark place.