#seed potatoes

[petula-xx]

Seed potatoes successfully chitted and ready to plant out today.

[thicklymajesticrelic]

Seed potatoes

Got em.

Letting them rest on a shelf in my kinda too humid house so they can chit (get more eyes which are the root feeler things it needs to get water) and managed to get about 10lbs worth. Hopefully, it will spread to multiple plants so they can propagate and become my crop.

Potato patch is also decided and will be made shortly as they chit. Going to try the 'no-till' method where I just kinda hill em up continuously. Know where I can ask a feed store for any spilled barley straw to use as mulch...

Wish me luck.

[thicklymajesticrelic]

My sibling chucked my propagating sweet potato while I was working, thinking it was going bad...

'It was growing things!' they said.

...yes.

...that's the point.

...I was propagating it.

...you propagate sweet potatoes by letting it grow slips and then carefully cut them off and put them in water until the slip develops a root system...

*sigh...*

Granted, they were by a slightly decomposing pie pumpkin that I was going to harvest seeds from- and I did manage to save my butternut squash seeds...

...but still, I had been working on that sweet potato for a MONTH trying to coax it into producing viable slips. They were just BARELY long enough to propagate and my sibling chucked it because 'if it has eyes then it's bad= not good for eating= rancid= goes into waste bin' was their thought process.

...they even chucked my shallots... everything that was on that particular table. About a month's worth of work... just gone...

They apologized and said that they didn't know- even though I told them, repeatedly, they have seen me tending to them, they called it my 'science project', but apparently the ADHD brain made them forget- and said that they were willing to buy me new plants but that's not the POINT. The point is, that today the slips were ready.

Today, I was hoping to propagate sweet potatoes from store bought after about five weeks of getting that damn thing to grow slips- making sure that it had enough clean water, making sure that the indoor temperature was right, protecting it from the cat- and now it is literally in the waste bin, and I'm sad. I put aside time after work today to propagate them, and was planning to continue caring for it to get enough slips to start a sweet potato patch eventually.

...I can start over with new plants, but I will not be getting the time back, and now that it is getting later into the season, while there is still time, I will be missing out on some serious growing time as I was hoping to get those slips into the ground by the beginning of April. Now I'll be lucky to get them if I get them into the ground before May...

UGH...

At least I saved the butternut squash seeds- I had taken the seeds I had saved into my room since my room is a little warmer than the table, apparently that was the only thing that saved them from the fate of the sweet potatoes, shallots, garlic, and pumpkin...

...and my seed potatoes... 'they had eyes growing on them and they were gross looking! I thought they were bad!'

*pained groan*

I think I'm going to go scream into the void for a bit...

I love my sibling, but I am going to need to grieve some before I get around to forgiving them and thought to share my grief.

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