Today's big goal is to have Quicksilver put potatoes into a bucket as I dig them.
I will need a head-start. I want there to be some potatoes already dug when she enters the garden. Attention spans and all that...
Then to help her scrub the potatoes and lay them out to dry.
Then to send her home with her Very. Own. Potatoes.
Neurotic people are neurotic because they don't feel important and have to create problems to feed their need for drama/importance.
Food is life. How can somebody who can grow food NOT feel powerful and important?
---Added at noon---
Mission accomplished. Somewhere between 10 pounds and 15 pounds of potatoes came out of the dirt. She put every one of them into the five gallon nursery planter. Then the potatoes went into her wading pool for a swim.
Her sense of organization was offended after we spread the potatoes on the lawn to dry. She promptly moved them back to the bucket "where they belonged". Who would have guessed a 2-year-old would have a strong sense of right-and-wrong?
Your potatoes will store better straight out of the dirt. No "scrubbing" needed.
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DeleteI will still let Quicksilver scrub them. She takes after her grandmother and mother and she likes cleaning things.
Even if they don't store as well, Quicksilver will have more sweat-equity in the product if she cleans them and Southern Belle is more likely to use them if they are shiny-clean to start with. That is when the lines between the dots will solidify. When Quicksilver eats "her" potatoes.
I have heard that over the years so one year I stored some without washing and others after washing with both being dried and put in the same room. By spring I could detect no difference. But that was Russetts and there may be a difference in variety. ---ken
DeleteERJ - Sadly, my lame attempts to imprint gardening on my children failed - although all in their own way inherited my love of animals, soil and plants, reading, and some kind of handicraft with their hands. So maybe not a complete failure.
ReplyDeleteIn the south of Kansas we harvested potatos in July. They are stored in wire baskets sitting on the basement floor in a room without windows. The onions are hanging in a room at the other end of the house.
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