We Like Our Potatoes Mashed, Roasted, and Pest-Free
Anyone who grows potatoes loves them, so why not celebrate them? National Potato Day falls every year on August 19th; that’s right, there’s a day devoted to our tuberous friends. Some of us like ‘em mashed, others prefer roasted, but we all want them to be pest-free in the garden. So be on the lookout […]
How To Grow Potatoes In Containers And Buckets
There’s nothing like the taste of a freshly harvested potato! It’s unlike anything you’ll get at the stores. And guess what? You don’t need a whole lot of gardening space to grow them. They do very well in containers! You will need: Organic seed potatoes Some 5 to 10-gallon buckets or containers Good soil Water […]
Straw Bale Garden Potatoes
There they are – straw bale garden potatoes, which at first sight are amazingly clean compared to tubers grown in the ground. The first bale out of seven harvested was disappointing. Almost every potato had developed deep cracks long before the plants started dying back, and all of what had been attached to one plant’s […]
Straw Bale Gardening 2
Things are looking pretty good out there now that we’re almost into mid-August. Straw bale gardening has presented me with challenges just as much as it’s been amazing despite chilly nights all summer, and except for one 10-day stretch of hot days, the average temp this year has been around 74 degrees F. Still the […]
New GMO Wave
Who opened the valve on GMOs? Wave after wave of fresh genetically modified foods and crops news have rolled over our news sensors in the past couple of weeks. Probably the most important is this announcement: No Scientific Consensus on GMO Safety Not a rumor. It’s a fact. The much bantered about scientists concur that […]