First Potato Harvest
Back when I dug our my first small vegetable patch I planted it with seeds of carrots, corn, beens and lettuce this left me with a small unproductive patch of dug earth with nothing planted in it so I decided to plant three potatoes from the pantry that had started to sprout. I have never grown potato before but I do have fond childhood memories of digging them up like little nuggets of gold buried in the earth (perhaps by some sort of potato Pirate?) Various people told me a range of different ways of how they grow potatoes the most common way using old car tyres and raising the soil as the plant grows although I have also been told that this is a bad as toxins from the tyres can leach into the soil and potatoes. A common farming practice seem to be to just pus up dirt around the plant so that is what I did. Today I notice that one plant was pretty well dead so I decided to dig it up. It truly is like digging up buried treasure but this treasure buried months ago has multiplied many times to give me a nice little collection of potatoes of various sizes. I bet Blackbeard wished his treasure could do that.
