Spent a satisfying day playing in the dirt. Planted 2 varieties of #potatoes (3 more to go tomorrow) and worked with my spouse to clear more of the bramble from the terraced garden area. Then we planted 3 #blueberry bushes.
Spawn the eldest called & we had a lovely conversation. Spawn the youngest messaged me love & hugs.
Spouse & I will cook dinner together & spend a quiet evening w/the dogs in a cuddle pile on the sofa.
Oh well, the tracking email I was waiting on to see when I'd get the seed potatoes I ordered last month has yet to arrive, but as I saw the potatoes in question were delivered today, I consider the missing email a moot point. Tomorrow I'll begin to thusly dig up one set of potatoes & plant another, saving some of the newly harvested potatoes to chit & replant. #Potatoes@gardening
This is a selection of the thousands of native potato varieties that grow in Peru. What is even more interesting is that agronomists are looking to the ancestral knowledge of Peruvian farmers to identify genetic strains that can resist climate change.
"The US Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee is expected in 2025 to declare that potatoes aren't actually vegetables and instead will lump them in with grains and rice."
did everyone else already know that this is what potato roots do???
these look like alien/scifi plants, for real.
there's basically already a whole tiny ecosystem around these roots. i even saw some white fuzzy critters sitting on them. there's a lot going on here and it looks very out-of-this-world.
#Potato pancakes are not an inherently #Ashkenazi food. Like many foods regarded as traditionally #Jewish, potato pancakes are common all across European cuisines, and it’s important to remember that #potatoes are not native to Europe, and did not exist in Europe prior to their importation from the Americas in the 16th Century BCE.
"Potatoes in the Basket"
My love for still-life photography started with this photo. It has been hanging in my kitchen for years and I hope there will be someone who would also like this photo in their kitchen.
Today I had a little slice of time to work in the garden before the rain came. I got both butternut pumpkins and baby bear pumpkins mulched with the cut grass I raked up from the fields next to a nearby stream. I got halfway through hilling up the potatoes before the rain arrived. I kept gong 'til I got it done, and got a bit muddy in the process.
Weather's changing towards the cold as today fades away. Probably a killing frost for the first few weeknights this coming week.
That ominous forecast spurred me to action – so I dug up the last of the #potatoes still in the ground, and uprooted the #rosemary to try and get it through the winter indoors.
What weird things are you doing in the middle of the night tonight, Gigi?
Sifting sand. I need sterile sand for storing my seed potatoes over the winter.
First I baked it at 325° for 2 hours to steam off any water in it and kill anything that might be living in it, and then I sifted it through the mesh screening that I actually bought for my Ikea drainage holder wood stove/firepit as a spark arrestor.
Did I have to do this in the middle of the night? No. But I was working on something until late and still wasn't ready to go to sleep.