Leave a potato on the counter and it will sprout. Bury it in the garden, and it will grow. And you might be surprised how well it does without any additional care. There are things that you can do to improve your yields – ad compost, scout for potato beetles, pulg a few weeds. But … More Online stores are like potatoes
There was a point in our garlic harvest days when we realized that it took us just as long to hang up the garlic to cure as it did to harvest that garlic. And that was way too long! We found this out one summer when we tracked every task associated with the 3 crops … More How Our Season Review Reduced Our Garlic Workload
A few years ago we quit growing potatoes at Tourne-Sol farm. Though there is nothing like freshly dug potatoes, we didn’t have reliable yields. We could get anywhere from 1lb a bedfoot to 4lbs a bedfoot. At 4lbs/bedfoot, potatoes definitely made sense for our farm. It was a lot of lifting but what bounty! At … More When We Quit Growing Potatoes