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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsI just got my Maine Potato Lady catalog
The bad news is it doesn't include Peruvian purple wild potatoes.
The good news is when she shipped her seed, it included instructions on how to prepare potatoes for planting. So hopefully some of my Peruvian purples will make it through the winter and I'll successfully get them going in the spring. I've certainly had supermarket potatoes start throwing roots without trying in the past.
This summer I'm going to try sweet potatoes. I'm dropping the carola white potatoes -- mine didn't get that yummy, buttery smooth texture and flavor that I remembered. Instead it will be all deep purple, blue and red potatoes with high levels of antioxidants.
I got my Johnny's catalog last week. I've already picked out the beets. I ate some of my own beets last week. OMG they are delicious. I cooked and froze them...they were just *wonderful.* I only got 2 little bags of them last summer. Next summer I'm going for broke and planting a good 2 rows of them. Damn I love you beets!
I'm also going to try eggplants again. I lost mine during my hardening off -- the weather report was for cloudy with intermittent showers. Instead is was cold deluges. Then I tried buying a couple plants from the local greenhouse. The plants did ok, but never did produce a thing.
I may try to make a little portable greenhouse this spring as well. I have dozens of young sumac saplings that I think I could lash a frame out of using baling string. Then just get sheet plastic to cover it...
femmocrat
(28,394 posts)Makes me start dreaming of spring. I haven't have a very good garden for the past couple of years though.... I have a lot of work to do!
I planted sweet potatoes twice and got quite a few potatoes. They got moldy though before I could use them up. I didn't know how to store them properly. Never tried beets.
Happy planting!
magical thyme
(14,881 posts)My garden fell into a bad way when I was in school and then in the aftermath couple years, so was overrun with weeds and sweetgrass with a 2-3 year old root mass.. I finally had a window last spring, due to a early thaw and then a very dry April. I shoveled up and flipped everything except the perennials and bulbs that I could identify. I lost my mountain mint , but that was about all I lost.
I then repeated the shoveling this past fall, again thanks to perfect weather for it. So I'm expecting to finally have it under control again this coming spring.
I love when the catalogs come, too. I love to look at the pictures, and pick and choose and dream and plan.
Earth_First
(14,910 posts)I've got some things I need to tend to in the gardening department!
Love seed catalog season!