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First Trashcan Potato Harvest Update |
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Written by Julie
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Tuesday, 29 July 2008 22:19 |
Dedicated Sound Food readers may remember my earlier post about trashcan potato gardening. I am proud to announce that last weekend, my first three potatoes were successfully harvested from their snug little beds in my compost-filled ex-trash can. My 2-year-old son helped me harvest them. Three white, smallish, fairly regularly shaped potatoes emerged,after some prodding, and were met with considerable celebration.
(I had noticed one of my potato plants had blossomed a few weeks ago, but I wasn't entirely sure whether or not that meant I could dig around and look for some evidence that all my watering hadn't been in vain. I decided that it was time to check on the little spuds, and I was triply rewarded for my investigation.)
Each person in my house got to eat one potato, which was boiled and sprinkled with a bit of sea salt, and eaten warm. They were deemed delicious (and went along well with my raw kale salad...see more on this in the recipe blog section). I'll try to post photos of our first potato harvest in the coming days. Right now, I'm not anticipating a harvest large enough to share with our Sound Food readers, but my fingers are crossed.
Now, can anyone tell me if I can keep rooting around and digging these up, or if it will interfere with their growth?
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