#growing potatoes

[wildrungarden]

I actually did grow potatoes this year, and for my first time… I’m really happy about the turnout! 🥔

[brattylikestoeat]

[askwhatsforlunch]

Rosemary Hasselback Potatoes

Crispy outside and fluffy inside, like any good roasted spud, these beautifully decorative Rosemary Hasselback Potatoes make a delicious side to your Sunday Roast! Have a good one!

Ingredients (serves 3):

half a dozen large Garden Potatoes 

3 fluffy sprigs fresh rosemary

4 medium garlic cloves

about 3 tablespoons olive oil

1 teaspoon fleur de sel or sea salt flakes

1/2 teaspoon freshly cracked black pepper

Preheat oven to 200°C/395°F.

Thoroughly scrub and rinse the Potatoes, then peel them.

Holding a Potato firmly in your hand, use a sharp knife to cut very thin slices without going all the way through, so the Potato remains whole.

Repeat with remaining Potatoes.

Cut two of the rosemary sprigs in half, and remove the leaves of the third into a large roasting tin.

Crush garlic cloves, and add to the tin.

Add prepared Potatoes to the tin. Drizzle generously with olive oil, and rub them thoroughly, including between their "slices", to coat well in oil, rosemary and garlic.

Season well with fleur de sel and black pepper.

Place tin in the middle of the hot oven, and roast, at 200°C/395°F, for one hour, until cooked through and golden brown and crispy on top.

These Rosemary Hasselback Potatoes make an excellent side to Roast Turkey or Roast Beef.

[balkanradfem]

So we finally had a nice sunny Saturday, and I went to the community garden, for the first time in months, to plant potatoes! I haven't been for a long time because we had proper, cold winter here; freeze every night, and it snowed twice. And when the ground is frozen overnight and it snows a lot, plants aren't growing that much, so leaving them unattended for a month is fine.

When I got there, the soil was nice and soft and perfect for spring planting. Here's my method of planting potatoes:

First I dig little holes, each for one potato, and I put the potatoes in those holes. It does not need to be deep. Then, instead of burying them, I add a bunch of mulch on top – what I had with me were tree leaves. It can be straw or hay or any half-composted organic material. I've done this for 2 years and it does the job beautifully every time. When potatoes grow their leaves out, you add more mulch on top, so the potatoes can keep producing. They put some roots into the ground, but they produce all of the potatoes in the leaves, so that you don't have to dig them out, you can just feel your hand into the leaves and pull out grown potatoes. That saves a lot of labour! It also lets me spy on the tubers, and I love spying.

I haven't made a garden plan yet, so I just randomly picked few spots and planted about 20 potatoes, these are going to be ready to eat in the beginning of summer. I'll plant more in the fields on another sunny day.

[halleehalfgallon]

grandpa takes the pitchfork out of my hand and starts to dig. he keeps hooking potatoes with the prongs. he picks one up. “I butchered it.” he looks it over, and then throws it behind him. “that one’s history.”

his wife says loudly from the edge of the garden, “y’know, I tend to use a shovel to turn them over, and that way you don’t take big hunks out of each one.”

he continues to claw through the dirt. “well… we all have our own methods.” he gets further and further down the row, gouging holes in some and leaving the rest in a trail behind him for me to collect. after a minute or two he slows down a bit, and in a low voice utters “I’m gettin’ bored of this project.”

[toadstoolgardens]

How to Grow Potatoes

I love growing potatoes and growing them yourself couldn't be easier! All you need are potatoes with sprouting eyes, some hay to cover your planted taters, and a way to water em'. You can purchase seed potatoes from a nursery or a bag of organic potatoes from the grocery store to plant. If they aren't organic they likely have been treated with a sprouting inhibitor enzyme and won't grow well.

How to Grow Potatoes:

1. Cut each sprouting potato into chunks, leaving about 2 or 3 eyes on each one.

2. Set the chunks in a windowsill for a few days to let them dry out prior to planting. They will shrivel up a bit.

3. Push your sprouted potato chunks an inch or two into the soil with the sprout facing up.

4. After you plant them all, cover the potato bed with a few inches of hay and water them well. This can be done in a 5 gallon bucket or other deep container, raised bed, or in the ground

5. They will grow fast! Quickly pushing through the hay and continuing on up. Usually once the plants flower and begin to fall over it's time to dig up the potatoes. It's amazing how many you'll end up with! Once you start the digging process it seems like there's always more. Push aside the hay and gently dig around feeling for your little potatoes.

That's it, now go chuck a spud in the ground!

[magpieatmidnight]

Reasons to be grateful: fresh new potatoes from the garden

New blog post alert - Reasons to be grateful: fresh new potatoes from the garden #gratitude #growyourown #potatogrowingchalleng2021

Earlier this year I stumbled across a YouTube channel called Erica’s little Welsh garden which I like to dip in and out of on a semi consistent basis. My own attempts a gardening tend to be sporadic and poorly planned, but I have also gained great pleasure over the last few years as I have learned to grow a little bit of food. On her channel around Christmas time she spoke about having bought a…

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[continent-of-wild-endeavor]

I hilled my potatoes the other day. They seem to like it: I can see significant new growth since then.