spuds

the seed potatoes i had saved from last autumn are certain they are done with being in the basement...i agreed...

so i put a layer of compost in the bottom of a few containers...

and inserted a population in each...the container spuds exceeded my expectations last season so we will hope for equal results this...we will know long about the end of july or so...

this accomplished i began to contemplate the seed potatoes i received last week...my plan was to grow them in the campus garden behind the asparagus...and i still will, however, i have room for only twenty or so plants in that bed and these tubers will produce more than thirty plants..so i will be looking for more space..probably in the "other" garden...i did cut enough tubers to cover the campus needs so they could callous overnight for planting tomorrow...

wiser heads than mine advise cutting elongated tubers along the length to preserve as many "eyes" as possible...so i did...with this one anyway...

after i cut the tuber in half i quartered it...those wiser heads also advise the pieces of seed tuber should weigh an ounce or better...either i am getting better at judging this or dumb luck has come to visit...

the round tubers i simply cut in half and i supplied myself with nineteen cut tubers...with the volunteer i planted at the campus garden this will make a full compliment of ( hopefully ) twenty plants...this too we will know with time...

elsewhere around the yard ramps are ramping...

there is a violet in with the einkorn wheat...

there is sparse wheat in the winter wheat bed...i believe that bed needs a break from wheat...so in autumn a cover crop and next spring some barley...

while the wheat on the compost heap is booming along...there will be elusinian mysteries yet...planting report tomorrow.