Posted on 04/11/2008 11:49:46 AM PDT by Gabz
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You didn’t eat potatoes?! Too funny! I know where you’re coming from, tho. My baby sister is 14 years younger than me. I was married and gone by the time she turned 4. She came over to eat with us when she was 9ish. Took one bite of the mashed potatoes and said—these taste funny! We all just about died laughing. When I could talk again, I told her, that’s because they’re real! My mom hates to peel potatoes, and she’d been buying the cheap instant ones.
Great looking garden. I might try some muscadine next year, do they produce a lot?
Lets just say the birds love them. However, it is nice to walk out on a hot july day and snack on cool green grapes.
It takes at least a year to get one going. This one (which you can barely see in the photo) was passed down from my father who found it growing in the woods 30 years ago. His has a base of about 4" !!! and feeds the neighborhood! All the neighborhood kids comeover and eat grapes off the vine and he loves it. He's 80 yrs old and going strong. Drives his motor home all over.
He complains about the price of gas, but I tell him that if he leaves a dime when he dies, he did not manage his money correctly !
Also, I shoveled horse manure in between the rows on the above photo this year to see if it helps. Its free at the near by stables. (I love my old pickup truck)
Of course I ate potatoes, I just wasn’t crazy about them. Until I moved to where people I knew started giving me potatoes that had been dug shortly before I got them.
I still keep a box of instant mashed taters in the freezer for those “just in cse” times, but other than that I’ve become a big fan of taters. I’ve got a Word doc of potato recipes you wouldn’t believe.
And I LOVE potato pancakes. During Easter break I spent an afternoon with two 9 year olds (mine and a friend) peeling, shredding, mixing, and frying them up. We had a BLAST!
Public stables are about 2 miles from our home and I haul 3 or 4 loads home or over to our Church and make compost with the lawn clippings, Redwood needles and straw for the various gardens. The stables will fill my PU with a front end loader and we have a holding bin at home and at the Church to stock pile it. Been doing it for over 40 years...
I PROMISE — I’ll get this week’s thread up in the morning..........
NO ONE, and I mean NO ONE wants to know about my day today!!!!!!!
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