The Potato Chronicles Wrap Up

It's officially Fall, and Daylight Savings Time has come and gone.  That means it's time to do a wrap up on the 2012 American Classic Potato Project for this year!

For those just joining us, our Potato Chronicles began in April, with an update here and another one here.

All caught up?  Okay, let's continue.

Last weekend was harvest weekend.  That means lugging out the blue plastic tarps and carefully tipping over the growing barrels (aka: trash cans).  Here's a peek at some of our harvest:

We had red potatoes...

...and we had white potatoes....

Final tally of our harvest was over twenty pounds!  We're storing them in a cotton sack, in the cool recesses under our stairway. 

 

One of our objectives for this project was to be able to grow these potatoes to use in our Soups On Saturday program that runs from November through February. We enjoy giving back to our customers, and this seemed like a fun way to do so!

 

I'm excited to say that tomorrow, November 10th we'll be serving us some very special Potato Soup! The fact that it's homemade has an extra special meaning!  Stop in and enjoy a cup, won't you?  We'll be serving from 9:00 am to 3:00 pm, or until the pot runs dry!

 

Thanks to everyone who asked about and supported our project this year!

The Potato Chronicles III

June 7, 2012

It will be exactly two months on Monday since we introduced our 2012 American Classic Potato Project.  Our last update was on April 25th, The Potato Chronicles II.  It’s time for another update, don’t you agree?

As you know, we have two trash cans of potatoes started, and you can see that the potato vines are now well above the top of the containers.  This weekend, we'll be adding the final soil to top off these cans!  We've let them go a bit longer than normal because we've had such an abundance of rain this week.  We wanted to let the soil dry out a bit from the top before adding more.

I must tell you that this progress is light years ahead of what we experienced last year!  I can't wait until fall, when we harvest, and see what kind of yield we get! 


I can taste this Fall's potato soup already...you, too?

The Potato Chronicles II

April 25, 2012

It's been exactly two weeks since we debuted our 2012 American Classic Potato Project!

It’s time for an update, don’t you agree?

As you know, we have two trash cans of potatoes started, and you can see that the potato vines have breeched the surface!  The vines are approximately two inches out of the ground as of this morning.  As soon as they hit the 4-6 inch mark, we’ll add 2-4 inches of soil to the surface, and continue the process.

I’m pleased to see our progress considering we’ve had temperatures in the low 40’s overnight since the cold front moved in last weekend.  We are back in a warm-up cycle now, so we should see some faster results moving forward!