Digging out the potatoes.
GP harvested about 40 pounds of potatoes.
The uprooted potato plants.
The potato plot.
The entire scene.
Grandpère likes for me to brag about his garden, and I'm happy to do so. I consider that I am fortunate to have access to so many fresh-from-the-garden vegetables and fruit. The produce, along with fresh fish, and meat from the hunt, such as venison, wild pork, and various wild birds make for delicious eating.
What do you do with 40 pounds of potatoes. They look good. We have just now started planting and have to wait a while for the crop to come.
ReplyDeleteDora, if potatoes are stored under the right conditions, they keep for quite a while. We give our excess to the local food bank, as they're always happy to get fresh produce.
ReplyDeleteSo you're just starting to plant? It's interesting to hear about the different growing seasons.
Ihave never grown potatoes. I have some lovely chard coming up, and my sugar snap pea plants are about 10" now.
ReplyDeleteWow, 40 lbs. Yum!
ReplyDeleteDad and I just put in tomatoes and bell peppers today. A little affirmation of life, in honor of my benign diagnosis! :-)
Impressive crop from Grandpere. I haven't even planted my potatoes yet. It's been so dry here for the past six weeks and the heavy London clay gets completely unworkable when it's like this - you can't even get a fork into it, it's rock-solid and hard. So they're waiting till it rains enough to let me plant them, and who knows when that will happen? Are they Desiree potatoes, Mimi? I usually plant Desirees and Charlottes.
ReplyDeleteI'd probably be too fat to move (getting there, tho') if I grew my own potatoes, what with the potatoes and then the vast quantities of butter that seem de rigueur when eating them. How my Irish ancestors managed without all that butter, I can't imagine.
ReplyDeleteIT, just reading about your fresh produce makes my mouth water.
ReplyDeleteJCF, what a fine celebration of your good news to get new life started in the garden.
Cathy, we have not had rain for months. I don't know what's going on around here. GP spends every late afternoon, watering, watering, watering to keep his spring garden going.
L F Antyne, everything in moderation. Butter is a must with the potatoes.
Low-fat yogurt would make a nutritious alternative to Le Butter, on the taters.
ReplyDelete[Unfortunately, today my BACK is complaining about my affirmation of life in the garden! }-X (There was some lifting of planting buckets and shoveling of soil and such. My lower back has been annoying of late)]
Fage Yogurt, from Greece, is as near as you can get in taste to sour cream and have zero fat. I never use sour cream since I discovered Fage.
ReplyDeleteWell done Grandpere! I am impressed!
ReplyDeletemargaret, GP is an impressive gardener. I try to remember not to take the bounty for granted. I am blessed.
ReplyDeleteLove red potatoes!
ReplyDeleteMmm, mmm, good!
ReplyDeleteDid the Irish not have cows? They must have had butter, champ is made with butter.
ReplyDeleteL F, did the Irish not have cows in your ancestors time? I know they have cows now.
ReplyDeleteIt is a joy to have home-frown vegetables as the quality and flavor are superior. No substitute for freshness!
ReplyDeleteButter may be my favorite food but Paula Dean goes too far even for me. Potatoes with butter... mmmm. Or roasted with olive oil, garlic, rosemary, and sea salt. I think I gained a pound reading and writing here.
Blessings on GP's wonderful efforts.
GP's potatoes are yummy. Almost any way you cook them, they are good. One of my favorite recipes is to boil small potatoes. When they're cooked, add parsley, butter, a little salt, and pepper. Then eat and enjoy with the skin still on. Easy, simple, and tasty.
ReplyDeleteYou're digging up potatoes now? I wouldn't get to that until early September back when I lived further up north.
ReplyDeleteThe photo's don't lie, Caminante. :-)
ReplyDeleteIn Michigan we never actually planted a crop of potatoes, but the old ones would be tossed into the compost bin and they would grow in there so we always had plenty of potatoes at the end of the growing season. My mom liked the tiny little ones.
ReplyDeleteDavid G., I like the tiny little ones, too, and if you don't peel them, they're easy to prepare.
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