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Fordy20

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Finally warm and dry enough to plant. Planted 50# of seed potatoes plus some left from last year. Total of eight 100' rows.

The ground is clay and packs easy. First year I tried this - two aluminum truck frames behind the field cultivator leaves the soil nice and loose.

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Since I want to use the two row cultivator I rigged up two middle busters - guess they maybe would be "side" instead of "middle" busters.


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Ready to cover - Cultivator is half of a front mount four row but works OK.


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Pretty country- where are you located?

We always had a big garden growing up (starving dairy farm family), but the one thing we never grew was potatoes-according to dad, "at $1.99 (or whatever it was) for 50 lbs., its not worth your while." I tried them once after wife and I bought our own place (45 years ago- where did the years go?), and concluded that dad was right. I can see how it would be fine if you're set up for it machinery wise, but doing it all with a #2 shovel and a hoe, it a rough go.
 
Very nice way to re-purpose equipment. The old adage, necessity is the mother of invention, is well used in agriculture.
I last planted potatoes about 15 years ago. Just 5 pounds of seed cut up. On clay, as you are. the yield was not big but sure nice having fresh potatoes.
I have heard that if your only food source is potatoes, they have all the neutrients a person needs for a month. Anyone else heard that?
 
NW Oregon. I give all the potatoes away I just grow them for fun. Most of them go to family and friends. Irrigation is piped in from Hagg Lake so it?s kind of a shame not to use it.
 
My Grandpa planted as many potatoes as you do...maybe more...supplied the whole family.

He mentioned a few times as I was growing up...

'It was in the middle of the depression. Neither I nor your grandma had a job. But we had all the wood cut that we needed for the winter. And a shack full of potatoes. I knew we'd be alright'

I'll plant some red's just cause I like new red potatoes, but nothing like Grandpa did.

Fred
 
GOOD looking "G"--Don't let MSD see it--He will strip it down and make a puller out of it!---Tee
 
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