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Frosted garden
About a week ago frost was predicted, yup it frosted, roof's, lawns, etc. were white at sunrise.
OK, night before we covered the tomatoes, they're fine, moat everything else is OK too except some of the potatoes.
Our spring was early and warm so the taters got planted on Good Friday, they came up like bang and were about 6-8 in. tall the night of the frost. Not being a career potato farmer I didn't realize they were sensitive to frost.
Now the rest of the story. A couple days before the frost I put grass clipings mulch around just a few potatoes about the same depth as the taters were tall till I ran out of clippings. Guess which taters froze, the mulched ones of course, the others just standing out in the cold didn't.
Someone here surely knows why, I dont.
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Memorial Day? Really? So you dig em on Christmas?
My Mom always tried to have new taters and fresh peas on July 4th, wow I'm hungry just thinking about new taters and new peas, Oh My.
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I'm not sure if they're Irish. I planted several variteys, I think the frozen ones were Red Pontiac.
They do look like they are going to recover, the stems are nice and green and loook like some new leaves are coming.
Even tho we were lifetime farmers we just never had time to grow a garden. I used to help Mom with a garden but that was a long while ago so I forgot a lot since then.
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Hey, I hit the jackpot of info here on the taters.
The frozen and/or gassed ones look decent now. I did do the rest as soon as they peeked above the ground and they look good so far. I was kind of proud of myself by actually justifing the grass catcher thing for the mower to the Mrs. The garden has a sort of a neat look instead of a big weed patch.
Now about harvesting the taters. Last fall the Grand daughters 7/15 helped me dig the taters. No digging necessary, the taters were right almost on top of the soil under the clippings, you could just pick them up. Never thought about mice and snakes, we didn't see any. The 15 yr. old girl would have probably fainted but the 7 yr. old one would have probably wanted to have took them home in a box for a pet.
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Thanks Murf; I've learned a lot here today but I'm not sure I can retain that much information all in one day.
I'll spread the next batch just to be on the safe side.
I have a friend who claims to know more about a horse than the guy who invented them. He says that fresh grass clippings will kill a horse. I won't argue with him as I know less than nothing about a horse.
Anybody else here old enough to remember Mr. Ed, the talking horse? We could ask him I guess.
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