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Well it’s gardening season again and we’ve started. How about you?

For the potatoes we are hoping to repeat the success we had growing the potatoes in the Smart Pots.

We are reusing the same Smart Pots. They have been rinsed and nicely stored since last season. I did find a few petrified bagworms embedded in the fabric but (deep breath) I’ve moved past it since my husband dug them out for me.

I’m kicking myself for not saving some of our potatoes over to plant. We ate the last of them about a month ago. So I reordered seed potatoes from Seed Savers. I purchase two variets. The same from last year, German Butterball, and a new variety, Purple Viking which has a white flesh and purple skin.  Both of these came in nice and large. Last year the German Butterball were kind of small and so were the tubers from our yield.

Now I have learned from the Homestead Blessing sisters and their homemaking gardening video that if you want larger tubers don’t cut your potatoes down. That’s it in a nutshell so don’t quote me but we had larger tubers from Seed Savers so we did not cut and we planted them whole. Even though they had several eyes per tuber.

Now to plant the potatoes we used 2 15 gallon and 1 30 gallon Smart Pots. We filled each pot halfway with potting mix that had mixed with 1 shovel full of peat moss. Then we added 3 tablespoons of Oscomote granules (don’t know the article said to use this fertilizer).  Then we stuffed about 5 potatoes per pot down in the stuff. We let Peanut do this and hope they are placed far apart enough. Then we watered.

Now we wait…(when the plants are about 3 inches above the soil line we are going to fill the rest of the pots with the same concentration of planting mix).

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