Sue's in the Garden Growing the Groceries: Red, White, and Blue ... Potatoes?

Thursday, July 4, 2019

Red, White, and Blue ... Potatoes?

We dug up one bed of potatoes this morning. It was a harvest fit for Independence Day!

All the varieties planted are represented here: Mountain Rose in the foreground, a few Yukon Golds and lots of Russian Banana fingerlings in the middle, mostly Purple Majesty and a few Purple Vikings at the far end.

Here's the red, white, and blue part ... Mountain Rose potatoes have RED skins and flesh, Purple Vikings have pinkish-purple skins with WHITE flesh, and Purple Majesty have dark purple skin and flesh. Close enough to BLUE to suit me!

boiled until tender, tossed in melted butter, salt, pepper

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SueJuly 31, 2019 at 6:37 PM
Made some patriotic potato salad with the leftovers. After being stored in the cold 'fridge for a day, the flesh of the Purple Majesty potatoes really did look blue!
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One year later...

... Andrew came home after his freshman year at UNC-Asheville and announced that he wanted to put in a vegetable garden. He said he wanted to learn how to do it "before he had to." We all liked the idea of eating more local food. You certainly can't get any more local then your own back yard!

Rouse had recently pulled out two overgrown shrubs in the bed behind the house. He had no plans to improve the area until fall, so he gave Drew the go-ahead. Andrew worked hard preparing the soil... digging it up and adding turkey manure enhanced dirt and mulch. He planted pole beans, cucumbers, a variety of hot peppers, okra, eggplant, canteloupe, zucchini and yellow squash.

Drew's garden was a huge success. We enjoyed the fresh food so much Rouse and I decided we wanted a more permanent garden. And chickens, too! In September of 2007 Rouse built four more raised beds and starting clearing space for the chicken yard. See "The HENstory" on its own page.

We had a successful fall garden, with lots of salad and cooking greens. In the spring of 2008, we added four more raised beds. I successfully grew lettuce, arugula, spinach, chard, kale, mustard and turnip greens, cabbage, brussel sprouts, broccoli and cauliflower, sugar snaps, tomatoes, peppers, okra, green beans, field peas, lima beans, yellow squash, zucchini, eggplant, sweet potatoes, plus, lots of herbs. I had less success with beets, radishes, and carrots.

See the "Evolution of a Garden" page for pictures and more about how our garden has grown!

Sue's in the Garden Growing the Groceries

Thursday, July 4, 2019

Red, White, and Blue ... Potatoes?

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