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Sunday, September 25, 2011

Today's (soon to be) Fresh Food From the Garden

   The Fall harvest is coming soon and soon with it the time to reap the rewards of a hard gardening year. But what if you want to keep growing things this year? Well... plant a winter garden. Here's my Sweet Potato plant I planted two weeks ago:
And here's a Russet potato I'm going to plant once it has roots:
And if your wondering how to start sweets potatoes and regular potatoes:
   Sweet Potatoes: When there are green stalks popping out of the potato and they are about six inches long. You burry the whole potato until only about three inches of the stalk are showing.


   Russet potatoes: You first see if it has a growth shooting out (or an eye as it's called). Then you cut the potato in half and soak the cut half in water as seen above. And it's ready to plant when you see roots coming out of it. Or look like this.

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