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For a few days, I thought I was done planting things at the community garden, but then I remembered that I still had a couple of squash plants to put in up there. Also, the last time I went to the hardware store for something, I was looking at the seeds like you do, and I saw blue seed potatoes. This intrigued me, because these aren't fingerling potatoes, they have some size to them. Of course I had to buy a couple of packages of them. I knew that I had enough space left in the potato plot to plant two more rows, I wasn't going to put any more potatoes up there, but blue potatoes! I had to do it!
I went up to the community garden on Tuesday to mow the grass and plant stuff, but I didn't get much done because the rain storm was coming in.
I did manage to get the squash plants put in before the rain started.
I had to wait until yesterday to get back up to the garden due to the rain. The first thing I had to do was cut the grass, just to get it taken care of. Then I was able to get started with planting the blue potatoes.
This is the variety that I found, Adirondack Blue.
These seed potatoes had a lot of good eyes on them so I was able to cut them up into several pieces each to have more chunks to plant. I cut up the taters, dug the rows with the hard tooth rake, and placed the potato chunks about a foot apart in the rows.
Then it's just a matter of covering up the potatoes with the rake. I pull the dirt up around the row where the potatoes are buried so that when I water the garden, the water stays where I put it instead of running off between the rows. You can see a lot of the red potato plants have come up now also.
I also decided to plant some pie pumpkin seeds in the same area where I had put the squash plants. I put 4 seeds in each of the 2 circles, hopefully they'll germinate decently. Sometimes my luck with pumpkin seeds is not so good.
My Painted Mountain flour corn is all coming up nicely now, there's only a few empty spots, so I had good germination on those seeds.
Now that the corn is up, I need to go back up there and plant the Hidatsa pole beans between the corn in the outer rows. The beans use the corn stalks to climb on, but you have to give the corn a head start or the beans will outgrow the corn. You plant the beans only along the edges of the corn patch so that they will get enough sun. If you plant them in the middle of the corn, they get shaded out. The Hidatsa beans are a nice soup bean with large seeds that have a nice texture and a good flavor when cooked. Since you don't harvest the beans or the corn until they're dry, this system works out pretty well.
That's all I have for this post, thanks for stopping by to check it out!