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lauradi7dwin 2012 (!) I posted about helping to harvest potatoes at the Interfaith garden
https://lauradi7dw.dreamwidth.org/318368.html
Today I planted potatoes in about the same place. The procedure is pretty simple - dig a trench, cut actual potatoes (with sprouts if possible), put the halves cut side down in the trench about 10" apart, cover with some (not all) of the dirt that came from the trench. I was interested to learn that different potato varieties have different growing duration, so there are three rows that will mature at different times.
It was easier than harvesting them, and easier than weeding, which I don't like doing anyway, because I have the emotional thought that if a non-invasive plant wants to grow, who am I to disagree? I am more ruthless about invasives.
As I worked I was thinking about the kdrama "The Potato Lab," following researchers at a potato research lab. I wouldn't really recommend spending your time on it, but while some of the characters were interesting, while I was watching it I gradually found myself mostly engaged in worrying about the potatoes themselves - there was a storm that harmed the greenhouse. The corporation that funded the research was going to pull out. Stuff like that.
https://lauradi7dw.dreamwidth.org/318368.html
Today I planted potatoes in about the same place. The procedure is pretty simple - dig a trench, cut actual potatoes (with sprouts if possible), put the halves cut side down in the trench about 10" apart, cover with some (not all) of the dirt that came from the trench. I was interested to learn that different potato varieties have different growing duration, so there are three rows that will mature at different times.
It was easier than harvesting them, and easier than weeding, which I don't like doing anyway, because I have the emotional thought that if a non-invasive plant wants to grow, who am I to disagree? I am more ruthless about invasives.
As I worked I was thinking about the kdrama "The Potato Lab," following researchers at a potato research lab. I wouldn't really recommend spending your time on it, but while some of the characters were interesting, while I was watching it I gradually found myself mostly engaged in worrying about the potatoes themselves - there was a storm that harmed the greenhouse. The corporation that funded the research was going to pull out. Stuff like that.
