Wishing you all a pleasant weekend!CherryWillow’s ‘No-Filter Friday’; post a photo on Friday that you’ve taken that has only ‘sizing and adding a copyright’ being the only editing/filtering done to it.
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I’m happy to finally have our first harvest. I pulled some green onions and cut some chard. It was fun and I wish I had more veggies ready to harvest.
I cut some sweet basil. I forgot to get a photo of the cut basil, but here’s one of it still on the plant.
I put the chard in the refrigerator for future use. I used the onions and fresh cut sweet basil in Bruschetta. Then I made some Bruschetta toasties for supper. The toasties was really good and a nice something different. I had quite a bit of Bruschetta leftover for later.
One of the potato plants has broken the soil. It looks like a wee green rose nestled down in the potato bucket. I had trouble getting a good photo, but I wanted to post it anyway. Perhaps this wee green rose is the start of a bucket full of potatoes. I hope I hope.
It looks as if our little garden is off to a good start. Hopefully we’ll get more harvest and maybe even have some produce to store for winter.
Happy gardening!
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5-7-2017 Potato Experiment day 1
I found a couple of small potatoes in my potato bin that had sprouted a bit. I considered putting them in the edge of the woods for the critters. Since there were only 2, I decided to try something that I wanted to try for years; growing potato plants in a bucket.
According to what I’ve read, if you plant a potato in a container that you can add soil or straw around the plant as it grows taller, it might produce a bucket of potatoes. I’m using store bought garden soil because that’s what I have on hand.
These particular potatoes are regular yellow eating potatoes. I’m not sure how well they’ll grow in the buckets, but I think it may be interesting to try. (plus it’ll give me something else to blog about. 😉 )
I’m using a couple of old 5 gallon buckets that I used in years past as planters on the porch. They have holes in the bottom for drainage. I put about 5 inches of garden soil in the bottom.
I cut the part that sprouted off the potatoes.
I then placed the potato pieces in the soil.
I covered them with about an inch of soil. I gave each bucket about 4 cups of water.
Now I wait.
I’ll post an update if a potato plant starts growing.
Have you ever grew potatoes by a method like this?
If so, did the potatoes grow and produce very well?
I hope you all have a lovely day!
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Wishing you all a pleasant weekend!CherryWillow’s ‘No-Filter Friday’; post a photo on Friday that you’ve taken that has only ‘sizing and adding a copyright’ being the only editing/filtering done to it.
The blackberries and dewberries are in bloom. It’s that special time of year known as ‘Blackberry Winter’. The pleasant warm temperatures are taking a break for awhile. Thunderstorms are sporadically battering our region. At the moment, the sun is shining and the wind is gusting like mad. I’ll be glad when this little winter has passed.
Wishing everyone a short blackberry winter.
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