When Protestants went to Church, God gave them harvests
even in weed packed North Dakota.
That's Norwegian for ya.
As another Lame Cherry exclusive in matter anti matter.
This is a potato review for 2021 AD in the Brier Patch.
Like most areas of the United States, we had a quite severe drought, but HAARP was active in causing monsoons at just the right time at least for soybeans for the Chicoms..
I have grown allot of potatoes and varieties over the years for fun. I no longer have the time or resources to trial potatoes so limit to what is in the discount seed section. That means my choice is Yukon Gold and Purple Viking most years, as I can grow long season..........ok potatoes are short mid season and long season.
Short season potatoes never produce here. Long season will, but require too much water in August and I need to be frugal so that leaves mid season. If I get them in, in May I can usually be done with watering potatoes in our August heat and drought. Saves me allot of time.
If I had my preference, I would grow German Butterball as those are very flavorful and productive potatoes. But Yukon is the best I can do, as I do not need a waxy potato (potato salad) and they do not keep well and I do not want a Russet, a dry potato that keeps, but does not respond to cooking as it soaks up dressings in making things mushy too.......so it comes down to the crisp alternatives or multi use group.
This year, we had dust storms. It did not rain or warm up, until June and then it barely rained. We planted late first week of June and it was dry and nothing came up.
You can not plant onions late like this as the crop is not worth planting. I confirmed this.
I was expecting absolutely nothing out of the potatoes as they emerged finally late June and were spotty.
Now for the 6 plants I decided to try. The gal had Red LaSoda and I shy away from reds as we grew Norlands as a kid and you got one big hen potato and about 4 chicks. Pontiac will not grow here at all. A customer was begging our produce gal to save her LaSoda's so for God's reason I saw them, same price as all the rest and popped in 6 seed potatoes to try.
The LaSoda actually came up when the Yukon did not. They were in a dry part of the garden and they grew. The Yukon followed, TL followed with late watering and lots of weeding. As stated, I expected some golf ball size potatoes in a half dozen and was going to call that a harvest.
We finally harvested November 1st after two months of monsoon fall rains by HAARP. God's result was He blessed us with some huge potatoes. Yes the hen with about four baseball sized potatoes and smaller, but in the end the LaSoda did better than the Yukon and we had 10 gallons of very good potatoes.
It is hard to explain to people, but even potatoes like heat. Potatoes like all plants do better with 90 degree days and warm nights in a drought, if you water, than cold wet summers. Heat is what makes crops when there is water.
So for a review, while we have not tried the LaSoda and mostly I'm keeping these potatoes for seed as I do not know what 2022 AD in the year of our Lord will bring, I probably will switch from Viking to LaSoda, even if I have gotten some terrific yields from Viking.
I used to cram potatoes on top of each other, and I got good yields, but I also do not like digging 60 to 80 plants and dealing with lots of buckets of potatoes. This year we had 30 to 40 sets, spaced as potatoes should be and they did really good. I will remind my children that I dig deep in the soil before planting and I use trenches to keep the water on the potatoes. This works effectively in conserving water, digging is easier in the harvest and the potatoes sort of self hill just be gravity and hoeing.
These lessons are probably going to come in more life saving in the days which follow.
While you have been whoring around, the adult poor orphan girl invested her mites and her time in prayer to figure out how to raise things in hard times for the bad times. When I was a kid, God had it that any moron could raise a garden. Not any longer as things do not produce. Cabbages now rot in the field here when we used to keep them till it snowed. It is all bullshit, but you have to get it figured out in God or your starve.
In looking back, in what the mother gardened, and my self. on the place we live now, the garden has been moved 8 times. It probably was a good spot where this began, but the mother always had ideas and not much happened with her gardening. In finding my spot, I had a good garden which did well........oopps remembered 2 more spots, so we had 10 different garden locations. The garden I'm at now is between the two best spots I had, one in a pig pen, and the other just in the loam sand soil. The pig sty I'm in, is sand, clay that goes rock hard and fumduckers who dumped rocks into the pig sty so it has lots of rocks to pick out.
It is coming along, with real cow shit compost and will benefit from a skid steer in moving things around and a Vibrashank digger digging to China to get the soil to behave. You can tame allot of dirt if you have the heavy equipment to make it mind.
The heavy till did a wonderful job on convincing the soil to produce even in a drought. For those who would scoff like they knew gardening and say rototill it.........;yeah you try that in this soil and you will knock out a transmission or bust the blades on the rocks as we have real rocks here that take crowbars to get out of the soil. So it is a process of cleaning up the bed and then when it is civilized the prissy methods can work that prisses garden with. Our garden is still in the pioneer stage. I think I hit 3 immovable rocks in two rows of potatoes.........so much for the piles of rocks I took out of there already.
I had good fortune, thank God with LaSoda and Yukon Gold. Things to remember for seed potatoes.
Nuff Said
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