Have you heard the wives’ tale about planting potatoes on Good Friday? With the remarkable warm spring we had this year, it actually made sense. These guys were actually planted the day before Good Friday. You’ll have to excuse the row/seed spacing. This was the first thing planted this year and Potato Boy and LuLu were eager to help. Given the size of a seed potato I figured it was a great time for them pitch in.

The Potato Patch

There’s somewhere around 125 hills of potatoes in the garden this year in seven rows. There’s a row of Russet, two rows of Red Pontiac, two rows of Norland, and two rows of Kennebec. There might be a few hills of Yukon Gold in there as well… as I mentioned earlier, the potatoes were the first thing planted this year and Potato Boy and LuLu were eager to help. I have a rough idea of what ended up where and once they start to bloom it should clear up the confusion. If not, we’ll find out with the shovel this fall.

All-Blue Potato

Maybe next year we’ll try some All-Blue instead of the traditional Russet. I bet they’d make an interesting potato salad. I wonder what Potato Boy would think of them?

Looking for more information on how to grow potatoes? ISU Extension has some helpful info.