Monday, December 30, 2013

unquiet tubers

the yema de huevos potatoes i harvested on christmas eve have begun to sprout in just six days...antsy tubers...they have been in the basement at a temperature of sixty degrees fahrenheit since i pulled them out and you can see the one in the third photo is greening a bit and so is producing the alkaloid solanine...it can be toxic if eaten but since it is going back into the soil there are no worries...so, in preparation for replanting, i cleaned out the second bushel basket to allow it to dry and in doing so i gleaned another eighteen tubers i missed in the first run through... there are now far too many for the remaining basket so i need to acquire another sizable container before the next week is through...no real problem but do i want ( or can i find ) another bushel basket? or, perhaps, a half barrel? whatever comes to hand first is the most likely...still geeked about this...if it all goes well there will be yema de huevos in the community garden, the pgp, and my back yard...a possible bumper crop of small yellow potatoes to sample...never one to turn up my nose at a root or a tuber, it sounds just fine to me...more as this devlops.

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