I planted a couple of dozen organic seed potatoes from Milk Ranch. These are the blue kind that make the sweetest and creamiest blue/purple mashed potatos that you will ever taste.
It’s probably a little late, but we can expect bad frosts here until memorial day, so there is no real hurry. It’s usually good to plant root crops as soon as you can work the soil, which has been for a few weeks now.

I can expect to have blue mashed taters for dinner two or three times a week starting in July.

Here are a couple of pictures of the garden. I did not borrow the roto-till from Larry this year so I had to work it by hand. I turned about 50 sqare feet, but I have quite a bit more to do before I can plant the tomatoes.

The grape arbor (back of garden) has self destructed. I planted fancy burgundy type grapes there when we first moved in (1979?), but the cedar posts finally rotted and collapsed. I have to fix that up – it’s a mess. I haven’t trimmed the grapes in a few years either so we don’t get much yield. We haven’t made grape jelly in many years.

There is a school of thought that you should eat produce from the area that you live. The thinking is that the plants have antibodies and hormones that fight local toxins. It is probably bull, but local corn, tomatoes and apples taste far better than the supermarket variety, so I am going to go along with this.

That’s why I love the Apple Cider Doughnuts from Conklin’s farm (made from local apples). In the fall, I buy 6 a week and don’t let Erica touch them.