I Ordered Seed Potatoes Today!/Update Post #56/Harvest pg 7

[897tgigvib]

No fair! You're in a time warp down there where it's already May 15th!

Beautiful though

 

[MontyJ]

Looks great Bay! Check 'em again this evening...I think I hear them sprouting ;

 

[Jared77]

Good stuff!!

 

[baymule]

Ever get to thinking that you are real smart and almost break your arm patting yourself on the back? And then have it all go down the drain and be reminded that you aren't so smart after all?
I thought since I can't hill my potatoes due to a space issue, I would dig a deep trench and put the dirt in the trench as they grew.

Feeling

pretty

darn

dumb

right

about

now.

It rained 1 1/4" in about an hour this afternoon. I bailed the water out, but it is pouring down again now. :/

 

[897tgigvib]

in 3rd and 4th grades i got a lot of assignments back that said...

REDO


Need fluffier soil, and the bricks on the bottom can be spaced for drainage, maybe some stones down there.

Don't feel bad! counterproductive. give it the ole south texas bigger and better redo than anyone else! and maybe some kind of removable cover for those south texas bigger and wetter storms than anyone else gets too.

 

[lesa]

Drat! Did you grab the potatoes out of there, so they don't rot? I do a very similar thing- I guess my soil must drain more than yours....Give it another try!

 

[897tgigvib]

I'm betting Bay's been all day doing just that. And I bet it is great now!

 

[baymule]

No Lesa, I didn't dig up the eyes. I bailed out all the water, we got a couple of sunny, windy days and I just hoped for the best. Then yesterday we got a deluge of another 1 1/2 inches in less then an hour. They flooded again. I bailed again and removed bricks at the end of the trenches to help them drain. Then just to be on the safe side, or maybe the insane gardener side I just went to the feed store and got 5 more pounds of seed potatoes. Getting our grand daughter for the weekend, so we will plant those too in a couple of compost piles. Worst case, they ALL will rot, or maybe some will grow and maybe they ALL will grow! We'll see. :tools

The backyard flooded yesterday about 6-8 inches deep on the lower end. Water :watering ran through the chicken coop and saturated the run. I have my 8 layers separated in the coop and the 20 Christmas-hatched chicks in the run. The chicks have an A-frame coop to get them out of the weather and I have dumped 12-15 bags of leaves in the run. It is real spongey right now. The coop has a grass clippings island in the middle and yesterday it had a moat around the island, today it is a mud-fest! I put sawdust in the chicks little coop yesterday so they would have a dry spot and am letting the coop air out a little before covering the mud with sawdust. We are expecting sunshine :coolsun for the next few days, hope it will dry out the potatoes and the chickens!

 

[canesisters]

poor potato trenches


UGH!! Will it EVER stop raining - just long enough to dry out a little.....
<~~~ In Desperate need of some sunshine

 

[Gardening with Rabbits]

My Purple Majesty seed potato has arrived.