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Planting Potatoes

4/23/2016

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Hot diggedy dog!  Dandelions are in full bloom now and it's time to plant potatoes.  I dig a trench with a middle buster plow and set the pieces by hand, about a foot apart.  Then I hoe a little dirt over the row and the fun begins.  The plants can take a few weeks to emerge, but with a little rain they grow like wildfire.  I hill them a couple of times, watch for potato beetles and leafhoppers, and before I know it I'm digging tote after tote of tender new potatoes.  I dig them with that same middle buster plow.  Nothing like watching those gorgeous tubers rolling up out of the ground.

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Lettuce Hope for Spring

4/4/2016

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The snowfall and cold weather has put spring off for a few days, so I'm back in the greenhouse, thinning some trays.  As farmers, we do our best to work with nature to produce a crop.  But with all of our knowledge and technology, nature still has the better hand.  And she ain't showin' her cards.
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    Farmer Doug has enjoyed growing things and eating them since he was a youngster back in Iowa.

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