This weekend brought 100 degree weather, and time to pick potatoes. I think it worked that way so God could show us what it would really be like to be farmers, no fooling here! But even with the scorching temps we had a great time and harvested quite a crop. We guestimate somewhere around 300+ pounds of potatoes.
The ants were not too bad this year and despite the shorter grow season due to the hot sun and no rain, we did quite fine. I tell you it just goes to show how little we really have to do with anything....All we did is take the inititive to put those potatoes in the ground. With only the help of God himself(we only got 4 inches of rain in the entire 2 1/2 month grow period)We got a magnificent harvest, and even got to share the work with family!
We put on a little contest for the kids to see who could get the biggest potatoe from each type-Yukon Gold, purple Magesty, and Reds. It kept them motavated!
Nathen won the prize for Yukon Gold and Purples, Calob won for The Reds, and Faith won best seed potatoe and hers will be the best of the next generation. There was a $1.00 prize for each catagory.
The kids really rocked today. We were out of there in 2 hours.
The ants were not too bad this year and despite the shorter grow season due to the hot sun and no rain, we did quite fine. I tell you it just goes to show how little we really have to do with anything....All we did is take the inititive to put those potatoes in the ground. With only the help of God himself(we only got 4 inches of rain in the entire 2 1/2 month grow period)We got a magnificent harvest, and even got to share the work with family!
We put on a little contest for the kids to see who could get the biggest potatoe from each type-Yukon Gold, purple Magesty, and Reds. It kept them motavated!
Nathen won the prize for Yukon Gold and Purples, Calob won for The Reds, and Faith won best seed potatoe and hers will be the best of the next generation. There was a $1.00 prize for each catagory.
The kids really rocked today. We were out of there in 2 hours.
here is a picture of a cluster of taters still on the plant.
These are jsut some pictures of the rest of the feilds, the corn and beans. We have quite a harvest still ahead of us! Praise God for his boutiful goodness to us!
All I can say is wow! That's a lot of spuds! Next time you harvest give us a call and we can come help. Well, we're beginners, lol, but just think of us as gardeners in training!
ReplyDelete