It’s not every day you see potatoes being pulled from the ground in the middle of the city. Since our garden is in the front yard (no back yard here), people stopped on the sidewalk to watch and ask questions and simply marvel at food happening within spitting distance of a busy thoroughfare, about a […]
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We think of potatoes mostly baked and slathered in sour cream or whipped with a big pat of butter. But they start out as a plant. And this time of year the potato plants are making a show of blooming in the garden. You have to look farily closely to see the blossoms. But our […]
It was only a few weeks ago that two pounds of Yukon Gold seed potatoes arrived from Wood Prairie Farm in Maine. We’ve had a fluky spring. It was too cold to plant potatoes at the usual time in mid-March. Instead we spread them on a baking sheet in the kitchen and let them sprout. In […]
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