I’m working at school today. Boo!
I worked in my garden yesterday. Yay!
I’m not doing nearly as much as I want to in the garden, but I’m getting little bits in here and there. Yesterday I planted potatoes! Purple potatoes!
I planted them in a storage tub. When the stems are a few inches high, I’ll add more soil. The result will be a tub full of potatoes at the end of the summer. A tub full of purple potatoes.
How many potatoes will those five actually produce? Potatoes…maybe I’ll plant some this year…
I’m not sure how many they’ll produce. The stuff I’m reading says that adding more dirt as the plants grow means there will be more potatoes. It seems like such an easy way to grow something, I had to try it. Also, the pictures I’ve seen of potato flowers are pretty. I wanted to see them in person. Also, where am I going to be able to get purple potatoes from a store? Just serving up a big pile of purple mashed potatoes on Thanksgiving will have made all the work worth it.
Is it the “meat” that’s purple, or just the peel/skin? (“Meat” & potatoes all int he same food…he he…)
Can we call it a big pail? A pail packed with purple potatoes?
I’ve heard of people starting potatoes in a tire, then adding new soil and tires as they grow. I totally want to try that, but I know that I would let the potatoes die and then just have a yard full of tires. (Trying to stay away from that image.)
This all has Dr. Seuss potential, but I’m not quite sure where to go with it right now…”positively packed pail of plump purple potatoes”… “I would not grow them in a tire, for if I did they’d surely die (imperfect rhyme, I know)”…
And are these from where blue corn chips come?! (“Of course not, silly – those are blue ears of corn, of course!”)
I hear Dr. Seuss in the background…something about plump purple potatoes in a pail…he cannot grow them in a tire, for then the taters would surely die (imperfect rhyme, I know, but then the guy’s been dead for a while, so what would you expect?)
Did you cut them up and the cut sides are all face down (which I suppose is right) or are you suing some strange PETA potato growing program?
They say you can cut the potatoes up to increase the number of plants, but I didn’t need to, since my container is so small, so I planted whole potatoes.
As Rose Nylund would say, “Can I ask a dumb question?” Are those just potatoes in the dirt? Or potato bulbs? Where did you get purple potatoes? If I just put some regular potatoes in dirt, they grow…more potatoes?
I sure hope they work. I would love to see purple mashed potatoes! But you might need a more complimentary color gravy. My uncle grew yellow watermelons one year.
btw: Can I plant a perennial in a pot?
They are called “seed potatoes”. The only thing I can tell that’s special about them is that they’re small and they’re certified disease-free. I got them at a garden center. I suppose you could just grow potatoes from the grocery store. But they wouldn’t be purple.
Yes, you can grow a perennial in a pot. I have several.
At grandma’s house we would just get whatever potatoes were left in the cellar and cut them up so that there were a couple of eyes on each piece and plant them.
The suspense is killing me, Lloyd – and THEN what would happen?! Did they grow….new potatoes?! (New potatoes, get it? Russett…Yukon Gold…new…ah, whatever…)