The potato plants are dying back and now it's time to harvest. Last year was disappointing for potato's so we're hoping for a better crop this year.
We brought a wagon up with the lawn tractor and began digging under the watchful eye of Candy!
We also planted these potato's in a different garden this year in hopes of increasing our yield. It appears this decision helped production significantly!
Digging up potato's, better known as the tuberous crop from the perennial nightshade "Solanum Tuberosum" isn't easy work, however with two of us the chore is finished quickly. It's extremely satisfying to grow your own food, harvest and eat it knowing it hasn't been sprayed with chemicals that are probably causing most of the worlds health issues today.
Potato's are an excellent food source high in calcium, potassium, and vitamin C. They also contain iron, magnesium, phosphorus, sodium, zinc, copper, B vitamins, and folic acid. And the list goes on.
Potato's also produce glycoalkaloids which can be toxic, so stay away from the green ones!
While we take a break Candy watches over her garden harvest
Next we fill up the wagon with our bounty which was just shy of one hundred pounds of potatoes from two short rows.
Potato's are an easy crop to grow, store really well, and provide a lot of calories per square foot of garden. They can even be grown vertically in box's, tires, or whatever you're creative side might dream up.
Friend, how are you? every good harvest gives you the satisfaction that you did well, Candy, Anis and Brimax form a great team and do not give up in the face of adversity, if the harvest was not good last year, surely the next year will be much better.
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In my country with potatoes we make many recipes, potato puree, stuffed potatoes, potato lasagna, a rich chicken salad and many other things
Greetings to all especially for Candy
Hello friend, the harvest of potatoes for me is very rewarding, especially when the harvest is of good quality, I tell you that on one occasion we took a harvest of beautiful potatoes had plants that gave tuberculo weighing more than half a kilo, it was really very exciting, as soon as the government found out, they applied a clause, and they confiscated the entire harvest, losing the investment in addition to being owed. That is why today it is very rewarding to see such a good harvest and more with what you mention, that you did not apply chemical products. In addition to the benefits that you have already mentioned, it serves us for the beauty of our skin as, to reduce the swelling of the dark circles, eliminate facial blemishes, which are very good for acne. among other great benefits, plus they are very versatile to prepare thousands of culinary recipes, from fries to the imaginable, so I congratulate you for that excellent harvest of potatoes and that will make you happy and to prepare a good meal for Candy . greetings to anise @brimax