Christmas came in August!!!! ~potato related~

[secuono]

OMG! So glad I did listen and went out to check the potato bed! I was so excited, like a child in a candy store or ripping open presents on xmas!
I'm so giddy! I saved back 8 1.5in potatoes and planted them back.






Look at me, the little farmer/gardener girl! :tools :watering

These are rinsed and now I need to find out how to store them!!!
Our cellar likes to flood in a corner, so it's humid in there! Is that ok? I will have to make special hanging cages since we have mice. But would it be ok in there? Rest of the house is warm no matter what...

Can the tiny ones be eaten...??

 

[Ridgerunner]

For this type of potatoes, humid is good and the cooler you can keep them, the better. But don't let them freeze.

Yes you can eat the tiny ones. I do.

 

[Carol Dee]

The tiny ones... YES eat them. We delight in the 1st tiny *new*potaotes and often enjoy them with fresh peas from the garden Enjoy. (No need to peel, juts boil and eat, yummy.)

 

[secuono]

I believe they are Yukon Gold.


Glad the minis will be bite sized dinner.

I will get a thermometer down there to get a temp range.

 

[Collector]

Nice harvest, hope we get some off of our patch this year! Last year was a bust.

 

[desertlady]

Why save them ? Eat them now !! yummy !!

 

[secuono]

Only two of us and we hardly eat, so I need to find a way to save them.

How small of wire would I need to keep mice out? Half an inch, even smaller?

 

[Carol Dee]

Smaller, much smaller. Mice can squeeze through some very tiny openings.

 

[secuono]

What about metal window frames and metal screening work???

 

[ninnymary]

Congradulations on that potatoe harvest! Isn't it easy to grow potatoes and so much fun? I planted some for the first time in a 15 gal. container and got 15 good size ones and 15 small ones. They were also yukon gold. Next year, I'm planting 4 containers!

Mary