Sunday, January 22, 2012

Potato tutorial.


For the past few years I've been successfully growing potatoes in my tiny veggie garden. I buy potatoes at the grocery store -- just your run-of-the-mill grocery store -- cut them into pieces, plant each piece, and wait. I always get potatoes. But I've always wondered if I was making a mistake by using industrial strength potatoes instead of, say, seeds or non-Big Ag potatoes. I don't know for sure that this adorable little girl helped me understand my potato-growing any better but isn't she fun to watch? And now I WILL spend a little time doing a little research. It won't necessarily change the way I plant potatoes but I might be a little more educated. The reason I won't necessarily change my ways is that I'm old... well old-ish, and I've been bombarded with carcinogens for all those years, and I'm just pessimistic enough to believe that nothing I do now, especially if it just involves potato-planting, will change any of that.

And thank you to this guy who alerted me to this video.

1 comments:

Shannon said...

Haha ha! I love the defeatist attitude you have regarding carcinogens!

This post is informative to me as a new gardener because I thought that you had to buy seeds or seed tubers to plant in the garden.

BTW, I might take you up on your offer of a book from the bookshare website if you don't mind sending to a stranger.