[Homestead] Broccoli and potato question
Clansgian at wmconnect.com
Clansgian at wmconnect.com
Fri May 2 20:27:26 EDT 2008
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> May I ask where do you store them all?
Half of them (there abouts) we dig and store in bins in the basement. About
half we either clamp in the garden or else just leave them where they are and
dig them all winter. Those left in the ground are of better quality until
about mid Feb or early Mar. Then the ones that were dug are better, or perhaps
I should say just different. In the ground the potato determines in early
March that it is time to prepare for earnest growth and converts much of the
starch to sugar. The potatoes become very waxy and sweet. We ate perhaps the
last of the feasible potatoes last week and will have the first new potatoes in
about four weeks. Sometimes the two overlap. </HTML>
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