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Gardening and stuff
Sep. 29th, 2008 05:37 pmFinally got some of the wire rack shelving up in the SW room. One more and I think I can move the rest of the folded SCA clothing out of the bedroom as well as the hallway - yay!
Did I already write here that for the LaRatte fingerling potatoes I planted maybe 6-7 oz. of potatoes (3 individuals) and harvested 9.5 pounds? Better than the Maine whites, which I think I have about 8 lbs. of... although that last pound was by accident today :D
I was pulling up beets and putting them in a bucket of damp sand, which will go down to the shop cellar until the weather gets cold enough that I can store them in the back attic, off our kitchen. Of course we don't have any free buckets so that means going down to the barn, finding one that I think I can figure out better homes for the current contents therein, and _then_ going up to the garden. So, a bit of organizing to go with the gardening...
...and then it occurred to me that while the little beets were hardly worth the trouble for harvest, William will just plow the field and turn everything over at some point, so I took a bunch of the little guys and moved them over to L and my sunny plot, which won't be getting turned over by machine anymore, and re-planted them there for next year. Don't know if they'll come up or not, but might as well give it a try. There's still some more little ones in the original spot, which I may move over or I may decide to harvest for making soup immediately. Mary J said if we wanted a few of her beets we were welcome to them, so I might pick a few nice one out -- I think they may be a slightly different variety.
Anyway, I found the potatoes while I was digging to make a place for the little beets to go. It's only my second year growing potatoes so I guess I need to practice my spading fork technique or something.
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Tonight, most excellent soup -- combo of some potatoes and carrots harvested today, plus pepper, garlic, a bit of kale, and threw in leftovers from a few days ago (summer squash, ground turkey, onion, rice, soy sauce, kale). Yum!
Did I already write here that for the LaRatte fingerling potatoes I planted maybe 6-7 oz. of potatoes (3 individuals) and harvested 9.5 pounds? Better than the Maine whites, which I think I have about 8 lbs. of... although that last pound was by accident today :D
I was pulling up beets and putting them in a bucket of damp sand, which will go down to the shop cellar until the weather gets cold enough that I can store them in the back attic, off our kitchen. Of course we don't have any free buckets so that means going down to the barn, finding one that I think I can figure out better homes for the current contents therein, and _then_ going up to the garden. So, a bit of organizing to go with the gardening...
...and then it occurred to me that while the little beets were hardly worth the trouble for harvest, William will just plow the field and turn everything over at some point, so I took a bunch of the little guys and moved them over to L and my sunny plot, which won't be getting turned over by machine anymore, and re-planted them there for next year. Don't know if they'll come up or not, but might as well give it a try. There's still some more little ones in the original spot, which I may move over or I may decide to harvest for making soup immediately. Mary J said if we wanted a few of her beets we were welcome to them, so I might pick a few nice one out -- I think they may be a slightly different variety.
Anyway, I found the potatoes while I was digging to make a place for the little beets to go. It's only my second year growing potatoes so I guess I need to practice my spading fork technique or something.
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Tonight, most excellent soup -- combo of some potatoes and carrots harvested today, plus pepper, garlic, a bit of kale, and threw in leftovers from a few days ago (summer squash, ground turkey, onion, rice, soy sauce, kale). Yum!
