“Last I heard, potatoes also are the highest yield crop there is.”
That statement needs some qualifiers. Highest yield per acre, or per acre foot of water, or per man hour, or per soil preparation dollar, per total cost, per seed to actual crop harvest percentage are just a few that I come to mind.
Remember, I was in livestock production not dirt farming.
Diana, Do you make your own compost? Do you grow baking potatoes? Do you cut up hot pepers to add into your potatoe salad or is my wife the only one who does that?
“Diana, Do you make your own compost? Do you grow baking potatoes? Do you cut up hot peppers to add into your potato salad or is my wife the only one who does that?”
I have four compost piles. I’m totally lazy about it. They’re on a four-year rotation, and we push the oldest one over each Spring and then add the contents to the garden. But, since I have laying hens now, they get “first dibs” so we don’t have as much as we used to. And my boys are all grown now, so Husband and I don’t make as much veggie-matter waste as those fools used to, LOL!
I don’t bother with baking potatoes. They’re so cheap around here, as are onions and carrots. I’ll grow Fingerlings, or Blue potatoes now. In the past, I grew Yukon Gold because you couldn’t easily get them, but now you can get them every week at the local grocer.
I’ve never thought to add hot peppers to Potato Salad, but I’d give it a whirl. More likely with the mustard-variety, and not the German-variety. :)