Why so many potatoes, you may ask?
I grew these myself in the backyard, and they are delicious. Even my wife, who would almost always choose rice over potatoes, said so. I didn’t say anything at first, but she commented on how good they tasted, and it was only at that point that I told her they were from the garden and not those from the vegetable drawer in the refrigerator.
Now, I’m no gardener. I don’t have that green-fingered luck that some have. Don’t we all know someone who seems to be able to grow anything, almost anywhere, with apparent minimal effort?
I didn’t pay too much attention to the instructions. I picked a patch of earth in my garden that I knew was in decent condition in terms of a reasonable depth of soil, but beyond that, I didn’t do any testing or add anything either.
I followed the planting directions and spaced them out, but other than watering them between planting in late March and starting to harvest them now in late June, I did nothing. Perhaps I would have got more potatoes from each seed I planted. Perhaps bigger potatoes? I don’t know, but I do know that these taste so much better than anything available from supermarkets or greengrocers.
Now, I’ll see how the tomatoes are when they’re ready to pick, and then there’s the broccoli, cabbage, mini corn, red lettuce, and Brussels sprouts in the next few months.
I’ll report back. Watch this space.