the two pounds of organic red nordland seed potatoes that i received last friday will provide me with ( hopefully...but you never know for sure) with thirty-eight potato plants...if they all are successful i can look forward to a harvest of around ninety potatoes...provided i can escape the vagaries of disease and the potato beetle...i plan to use only one of the raised beds for potatoes, but thirty-eight plants in thirty-two square feet doesn't really add up...so i will be looking for likely spots around the back jungle since i don't want to use more than one bed and foul up my planned three-year potato bed rotaion...if can predict a backyard with more raised beds next season...my vegetable population is already outgrowing its space and, unfortunately, a sort of organic sprawl is the only solution i have...well...the project here at home is to move towards more self-sufficiency ( that defies the "i before e except after c" rule...i just looked it up in the oxford reference dictionary...argue with them if you like.) and control over food supply...that means using resources as efficiently and as renewably as possible...i have more room but it is finite...the more difficult work of planning will have to come before expansion...especially with apple trees on the horizon...i will let them callus for a couple of days and plant on sunday...off to campus ( in the rain) to plant spring wheat and beets...more on that mudfest later.
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