I struck gold. Finally made it to the MFA feed store and got my Yukon Gold seed potatoes. $0.75/lb. I could resell them online for $5/lb which is crazy.
I remember the absolute EXCITEMENT there was the first year we carried the Yukon Gold seed potatoes at Jung’s. It was the first potato I ever planted because I HAD to try it. It was supposedly BETTER than German Butterball - which it ws probably bred from - I don’t remember.
Anyhow, we had just moved the woodpile and had all of this LUSCIOUS soil to use, so we planted the potatoes there. Everything went fine all growing season. When we went to harvest EVERY SINGLE POTATO had been chewed in half on the bottom side.
We forgot that all the critters that lived in that woodpile still hung out there for Old Time’s Sake.
It was heartbreaking, but we survived ‘The Potato Famine’ of 1993, LOL!