Market Farming

[Vern and Amy <vaspencer AT sisna.com>]

Katherine,
   It looks like we may finally get our rain this weekend.  I hope not 
too much before we get 2 acres of potatoes out. 

How does anyone else in short seasons get their potato vines to die so 
they can harvest before it gets late?  I have already had some spuds 
on/near the surface freeze when we got a blast from the north bringing 
the south end of the patch down to 16 F and the north end to 23 F, which 
finally finished off the vines on the north end.  I have not been able 
to find a vine beater/chopper around here.

Vern in NORTH Idaho, where the only other person with this many spuds 
inherited his vine chopper.