I was thinking in how Jesus said, "My sheep hear my voice and they follow me".
I was looking at my potatoes in the garden today, and I know them and they know me. It is interesting to look at Yukon Gold, Alby's Gold, Norkotah Russet and Purple Viking and see the work of so many people worth so many millions of dollars in plant breeding structures that no one ever contemplates that potatoes in the wild, do not always produce tubers off of stolons.
The Viking is a full bodied plant, low to the ground and spreading. It does this to shade the ground so that it can conserve moisture and shade the ground so weeds do not sprout to compete.
The Russets from North Dakota are bonzai little things starting out in being a pile of leaves in one locality in the row. I suppose Monsanto spraying is what they were built for in combination of shade and non running vines.
Then comes the Agria or Alby's Gold out of Europe. Fascinating plants in growing verticle for cultivation, so the vines to not catch on machinery, ruining the plant and harvest.
Lastly are the Yukon Gold which are an upright combination of Alby's Gold and the spreading of the Viking.
It is interesting to me the hues of the plants, as the Yukon are pale yellow in as sort of way, and how the Agria from Europe start out as fuzzy purple things before becoming potatoes. I am a potato nut which is strange as I disliked them as a child, but loved digging them in the treasures you could produce in putting a fork in the ground.
Potatoes are unique in being early, middle and late in production. I never like late potatoes as they require too much watering, while early potatoes seldom keep well in that sugar content thing.
The Agria are strange in I can keep them in a porch from October digging to July and have good potatoes. That is the sugar in them converting slowly, while a Candy Cane will literally shrivel in a month, not making a great potato.
I love blues, but they do not produce well and they do not show up in my dark soil. It is like on never fails to always stick the biggest potato God grew with a potato fork. Odd thing in that, but happens all the time.
I will see how my wards do in the garden in a few months. Today they look marvelous in cool temperatures and good moisture, but then summer comes with scorching heat and high winds, and the next thing I know, is I can never water enough to make things right for them.
Am pleased no potato bugs this year, as my idiot neighbor was running a production farm of them for years, until the jackmanass finally sprayed them. Other neighbor said we always had potato bugs, but I know that, and I also know those damned things came from his place and it was my Sevin that killed the buggers off.
I hate using chemical poisons, but sometimes in an infestation that is all one can do. It took two years and lots of smashing bugs and larva, but in getting it down to a few locations, I hammered with pesticide, I did finally find the remedy.
I like best hoeing my potatoes. Hate planting the most in the work. In cultivation, I can with my weeder hoe, just enjoy things and feel the vibrations off the plants in being content creatures
I have already plans for next season as I spied chard grown in containers with TL and their Mom, so I calculated that 20 chard sprouted would suffice my needs. and put into little pots and put out early they would do nicely. Chard is bi annual and requires overwintering if one desires to save one's own seed.
By survey, my main garden has mostly crops which will take heat or be done before summer is done.
I planted a Maine corn this year to try.......and hope it appreciates the honor in being early and productive.......of course not making me sick.
I do so miss Anstance and Larry Esmonde White House on television. I suppose they are tits up, but those people could just be so comfortably odd that viewers just liked them from their Country Garden.
Canada is such a nice place to grow potatoes. I really believe that the entire American interior from the Rockies to the Mississippi should just join with British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba and I would take Ontario too, providing Toronto was not included. Most Canucks of that region are American migrants any way, and we would make a nice people connected to the Territories and Alaska.
I would give like half a million to all liberals to move to the coasts or across Jayhawk territory and with something like Torrington Wyoming as the capitol, Texas as the energy and business leader, it would be a nice place to raise people called humans, who would like to garden and other such things.
I dislike looking forward to potatoes in what they will produce as it means summer will be over. It would be nice if potatoes grew in winter, then I could look forward to winter being over and it being spring.
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