How do I know when they're ready to harvest? I don't wanna dig them up and
disturb them to find out, and was wondering if there's another way. I would
have done a web search to find out, but I didn't know the ISP hadn't been
paid this month, so since yesterday all I can do is newsgroups. Can't even
check my email. Hopefully that will be taken care of on Tuesday(payday) at
the latest.

Lilah Morgan wrote:
How do I know when they're ready to harvest? I don't wanna dig them up and
disturb them to find out, and was wondering if there's another way. I would
have done a web search to find out, but I didn't know the ISP hadn't been
paid this month, so since yesterday all I can do is newsgroups. Can't even
check my email. Hopefully that will be taken care of on Tuesday(payday) at
the latest.



The stalks will begin to wilt. When they look half or pretty well dead
(mostly yellow), I cut them back to just above soil level and leave the
spuds in the ground for about two weeks to give the skins a chance to
harden...then dig and dig and dig.

..

--

We must change the way we live,
or the climate will do it for us.

"cloud dreamer" wrote in message
...

The stalks will begin to wilt. When they look half or pretty well dead
(mostly yellow), I cut them back to just above soil level and leave the
spuds in the ground for about two weeks to give the skins a chance to
harden...then dig and dig and dig.

Ok thank you very much!

In article . net,
"Lilah Morgan" wrote:

How do I know when they're ready to harvest? I don't wanna dig them up and
disturb them to find out, and was wondering if there's another way. I would
have done a web search to find out, but I didn't know the ISP hadn't been
paid this month, so since yesterday all I can do is newsgroups. Can't even
check my email. Hopefully that will be taken care of on Tuesday(payday) at
the latest.

When they bloom, they've made little "new potatoes." You can dig into
the soil with your fingers to harvest some of them, for a treat.

When the frost knocks the foliage over, harvest your spuds. That's
when they're ready.

I forgot to pay our phone bill last week and they turned the phone
off. I was not amused, especially since I was on the road, to go talk
to our Governor. (It's embarassing to be visiting with the Gov and
not even be able to phone home. What a meatball, huh?)

Jan

"Jan Flora" wrote in message
...

I forgot to pay our phone bill last week and they turned the phone
off. I was not amused, especially since I was on the road, to go talk
to our Governor. (It's embarassing to be visiting with the Gov and
not even be able to phone home. What a meatball, huh?)


You can't set it up where your bills are automatically paid? A friend does
this online through her bank.

when the tops are all died off.

with our mulch method of growing you could feel in under the mulch and
take some bigger ones earlier.



On Sun, 01 Jul 2007 01:39:03 GMT, "Lilah Morgan"
wrote:

snipped
With peace and brightest of blessings,

len & bev

--
"Be Content With What You Have And
May You Find Serenity and Tranquillity In
A World That You May Not Understand."

http://www.lensgarden.com.au/

In article ,
"Manelli Family" wrote:

"Jan Flora" wrote in message
...

I forgot to pay our phone bill last week and they turned the phone
off. I was not amused, especially since I was on the road, to go talk
to our Governor. (It's embarassing to be visiting with the Gov and
not even be able to phone home. What a meatball, huh?)


You can't set it up where your bills are automatically paid? A friend does
this online through her bank.

Naw. We're ranchers; we don't have a steady income. Sometimes money
dribbles in. Other times it pours in. Just depends on the season
and how much "off the ranch" work we pick up during slow times.

I'm selling composted cow manure right now, to bridge us over a lean
month. (Okay, a lean couple of months.) And I'm growing cut flowers
for farmers market sales. Our spring was really cold, so things are
just starting to perk along now. We're three weeks behind our normal
growing season this year.

If one of us would quit being volunteer board members on ag and
conservation boards, we'd have enough money. The SO does Conservation
work; I do Ag work. (That way, someone is always home to feed the cows
and do calving season. Our board meetings never happen at the same time.)

I'm whining. Sorry... *blush*

On gardening, we built a new little "pocket" greenhouse the other day,
because my laying hens are using my old greenhouse. We filled the bins
in the new one with 1/2 30-year old composted cow poop and 1/2 with soil
from under alders (full of earthworms!). The 'mater plants are putting
on a couple of inches of new growth a day and blooming like crazy. All
of the 'mater varieties are Russian OP plants (Sasha's Altai, Galina's,
Aurora, etc.) and one damned Sweet 100, because I love those things.

For people who don't have any money, we live pretty good : )

Jan

On Jul 1, 8:22 pm, Jan Flora wrote:
In article ,
"Manelli Family" wrote:

"Jan Flora" wrote in message
...

I forgot to pay our phone bill last week and they turned the phone
off. I was not amused, especially since I was on the road, to go talk
to our Governor. (It's embarassing to be visiting with the Gov and
not even be able to phone home. What a meatball, huh?)

You can't set it up where your bills are automatically paid? A friend does
this online through her bank.

Naw. We're ranchers; we don't have a steady income. Sometimes money
dribbles in. Other times it pours in. Just depends on the season
and how much "off the ranch" work we pick up during slow times.

I'm selling composted cow manure right now, to bridge us over a lean
month. (Okay, a lean couple of months.) And I'm growing cut flowers
for farmers market sales. Our spring was really cold, so things are
just starting to perk along now. We're three weeks behind our normal
growing season this year.

If one of us would quit being volunteer board members on ag and
conservation boards, we'd have enough money. The SO does Conservation
work; I do Ag work. (That way, someone is always home to feed the cows
and do calving season. Our board meetings never happen at the same time.)

I'm whining. Sorry... *blush*

On gardening, we built a new little "pocket" greenhouse the other day,
because my laying hens are using my old greenhouse. We filled the bins
in the new one with 1/2 30-year old composted cow poop and 1/2 with soil
from under alders (full of earthworms!). The 'mater plants are putting
on a couple of inches of new growth a day and blooming like crazy. All
of the 'mater varieties are Russian OP plants (Sasha's Altai, Galina's,
Aurora, etc.) and one damned Sweet 100, because I love those things.

For people who don't have any money, we live pretty good : )

Jan

Money is highly over rated.
Deb

When the blooms quit dig a few. New potatoes and greenbeans. High on the
hog. We eat most of ours that way. You can get all of the tough skin
potatoes you want out of the store cheap.

Mel & Donnie down in Bluebird Valley In the middle of beautiful down
town Yountsville. Managers of the water works.
http://community.webtv.net/MelDKelly/doc

http://community.webtv.net/MelDKelly/MelDonniesBluebird

In article . com,
thistletoes wrote:

On Jul 1, 8:22 pm, Jan Flora wrote:
In article ,
"Manelli Family" wrote:

"Jan Flora" wrote in message
...

I forgot to pay our phone bill last week and they turned the phone
off. I was not amused, especially since I was on the road, to go talk
to our Governor. (It's embarassing to be visiting with the Gov and
not even be able to phone home. What a meatball, huh?)

You can't set it up where your bills are automatically paid? A friend
does
this online through her bank.

Naw. We're ranchers; we don't have a steady income. Sometimes money
dribbles in. Other times it pours in. Just depends on the season
and how much "off the ranch" work we pick up during slow times.

I'm selling composted cow manure right now, to bridge us over a lean
month. (Okay, a lean couple of months.) And I'm growing cut flowers
for farmers market sales. Our spring was really cold, so things are
just starting to perk along now. We're three weeks behind our normal
growing season this year.

If one of us would quit being volunteer board members on ag and
conservation boards, we'd have enough money. The SO does Conservation
work; I do Ag work. (That way, someone is always home to feed the cows
and do calving season. Our board meetings never happen at the same time.)

I'm whining. Sorry... *blush*

On gardening, we built a new little "pocket" greenhouse the other day,
because my laying hens are using my old greenhouse. We filled the bins
in the new one with 1/2 30-year old composted cow poop and 1/2 with soil
from under alders (full of earthworms!). The 'mater plants are putting
on a couple of inches of new growth a day and blooming like crazy. All
of the 'mater varieties are Russian OP plants (Sasha's Altai, Galina's,
Aurora, etc.) and one damned Sweet 100, because I love those things.

For people who don't have any money, we live pretty good : )

Jan

Money is highly over rated.
Deb

The SO and I both failed to inherit "the shopping gene," so we
do pretty well with no money. To the point where I have to ask my
girlfriends to buy our socks & underwear when they go shopping.
I buy our work clothes at thrift stores. We hit a Western Wear
store every couple of years to buy "go to meeting" clothes.
I buy a lot of odds & ends off of eBay -- computer parts, books,
horse tack. Stuff. Mostly, we shop at the feed store, the bulk grocery
store and the liquor store. (My mom is probably rolling in her grave --
shopping was her "hobby.")

Do you guys ever get given more stuff than you have room to plant?
I've got an embarassment of gifts this week. Don't know where I'm
going to plant all of this stuff! I think that the word got out that
I give everyone a feed sack full of composted cow poop when they give
me some starts. I've got broccoli, cabbage, squash, etc. starts up the
wahzoo, and not enough fenced garden area to plant them all...

Jan

Jan Flora wrote in
:

*snip*


Do you guys ever get given more stuff than you have room to plant?
I've got an embarassment of gifts this week. Don't know where I'm
going to plant all of this stuff! I think that the word got out that
I give everyone a feed sack full of composted cow poop when they give
me some starts. I've got broccoli, cabbage, squash, etc. starts up the
wahzoo, and not enough fenced garden area to plant them all...

Jan


I've had more seed potatoes than room for potatoes several times. It's
an easy thing to do, as they like a couple square feet to themselves, and
a single eye grows a plant.

We've had all kinds of volunteer tomato plants. We've planted none this
year so far, but have 3 staked and more we could stake. If you don't
want volunteer tomatoes, better catch the tomatoes before they go bad and
land on the ground. ;-)

Puckdropper
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