Planted potatoes

PJH · Apr 10, 2020

Starting

Finished - 810 feet of row total

NY 986 · Apr 10, 2020

Nice tractor and good job. I wish that I could have bought the neighbor's 720 and 45 loader when he retired.

Billy Shafer · Apr 10, 2020

Asking because I don't know. But how do you grow potatoes.Do cut them into sections plant the whole thing. Just how do you grow them.

PJH · Apr 10, 2020

Billy - we cut them into sections with two or three "eyes" on each section. The potatoes that we planted today are from last years crop. Most of them had a little growth at each eye. They are eager to get going.

After they sprout and show themselves in the row, I take my potato plow and throw a bigger ridge of dirt to them. The potato plow lines up with the tricycle front, so I don't get on the row. The bigger ridge will smother any grass or weeds that have gotten started. Then I mulch the entire patch with hay. Around September the plants will begin to die and we'll plow the potatoes out and store them in an old cellar. We raise them for the entire family and any neighbors that want some.

PJH · Apr 10, 2020

Thanks - this one is a 620. I've always wanted a gas 720 or 730.

Billy Shafer · Apr 10, 2020

PJH Thank you. Where I was raised was all cattle country and black land. I don't think they would do well there.Where I live now is all sandy land. Looks like the land in the picture.We would buy fifty pound sacks of them. Spread them on the rack dad built. So they could get air. We had an older couple across the field from us.My job was to load the trailer behind the tractor with supplies for them.Then take it to them and unload the items.

I was always told if you don't know ask.Thanks.

larry@stinescorner · Apr 11, 2020

great pictures,,I like the planter setup!

Philip d · Apr 11, 2020

That?s a very nice setup, so you just drop the sets down the tube? What variety did you plant?

fastfarmall · Apr 11, 2020

I can remember my Dad saying plant potatoes on Good Friday.and have new spuds on the 4th of July!

PJH · Apr 11, 2020

Philip - yes, my wife rides the planter and when the little clapper clicks on the dog dish she drops a "set" down the 4" tube. One per foot if everything goes right. Even with the tractor engine idling, it keeps her busy keeping up with the clicker. There is a shoe of sorts on the bottom of the tube. We planted Kennebec, left over from last year. Three of those tubs planted this patch. Here's another picture from a different angle.

PJH · Apr 11, 2020

Good story Billy - you and your dad did well for your neighbors.

PJH · Apr 11, 2020

Green beans and new potatoes flavored with bacon!

PJH · Apr 11, 2020

Thanks Larry - I like seeing all of your garden pictures too.

rlp in Co. · Apr 11, 2020

Nice tractor and planter. Is that planter commercial made or did you make it?

Philip d · Apr 11, 2020

Simplistically genius!

Phil9N3667 · Apr 11, 2020

We planted a few items last two weeks and danged if we didn't get frost this morning!! Killed the zucchini plants. Daughter ain't happy!!

PJH · Apr 11, 2020

Thanks - the planter is homemade. Started with an old cultivator. Then added the disk hillers. Then added the drop tube and the seat. Then added the little wheel to mark the drops - it clicks against the dog dish every 12 inches.

It takes longer to cut up the "seed" than it does to plant them.

rlp in Co. · Apr 11, 2020

Now that you mention it, I see the dog dish. Cool!!!!!!

PJH · Apr 12, 2020

Phil - these early warm days make us want to get things in the ground. I remember 1967 - we were covering our tomatoes at night into the last weeks of May. Sorry about your zucchinis. There's still plenty of time to replant - they produce fast.

Whenever I think of zucchini, I'm reminded of having to lock our car doors in the church parking lot when zucchinis are in season - to prevent finding bags of zucchini in the car after church, ha. Locking the doors didn't work - then they set the bags on the car hood. We're surrounded by good people in this world.

PJH · Apr 12, 2020

Thanks Philip, but all of the ideas were "stolen" from someone else.

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