Sunday, August 9, 2009

Baby potatoes!



These are Red Norland and Yukon Gold -- a couple weeks before the late blight hit.

So yeah. Then the late blight hit. This means that the potatoes have got to be eaten within a couple of days of harvest. This also means that next year it's going to be a lot harder to come by seed-potato.

One day I was in the field and I looked at the potato plants, the foliage was green. Literally 2 days later I looked into the same field and every single plant had died and turned brown and I noticed the smell of rot.

It's all kind of sad. But that's farming. Nothing much I can do about it now.

I've been eating and selling the Red Norland at a fast clip. They're effing tasty and while I'm bummed out they won't keep... like I said before, that's farming.

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