Well, the new crop of seed potatoes came in today.  There are red ones, white ones, and now we have yukon gold.  With these coming in, it means that spring can’t be too far away.  The old rule is to plant your potatoes on Valentines Day.  The buy what you need ahead of schedule and cut them up, with eyes on each piece, and dust them with sulfur.  The sulfur is to assure them from rotting.  If you plant too early they may rot anyway.  

 

You can plant potatoes in a garden, buckets or a few in your flower beds.  Potatoes are easy to grow and usually very plentiful.  One of the reasons to plant them besides eating, are a really easy lesson for kids.  It is so important to teach kids that food does not grow in the grocery store.  Everybody loves french fries so that would be a good lesson.  

 

Next on the agenda will be the English Peas.  Little Marvel, Early Alaska, and Thomas Laxton are all good varities for our area. I had an older customer back in the eighties that called them Thomas Laxative  peas.  We all loved her and miss her and many of our older customers.

 

Pretty soon we will start planting corn and snapbeans.  There is nothing like spring to put you in a good garden mood.