Potatoes

I too always stayed hooked to my trailer.

 

Did you stay inside the truck!? Did anything fall?

 

Yes, wait until you meet mount potato at the shipper.

What will get you is certain days of the season after chemical application in the fields you cannot go out into them, it will kill you.

 

The thing with 'taters, if you want to grow 'em organically (no sprays), you need to rotate them after the first year, never plant them again in the same place for at least three years. There's a little beetle from CO that will strip your plants clean in short order. After they've eaten their fill, they lay their eggs in the soil just waiting for you to re-plant them 'taters there again next year. Crop rotation will help to keep the damage to a minimum....

 

I ran one random load of fungicide for potatoes up to Maine last year. Thats about as close as I'll get. It was off-season, so I didn't get to see much going on but learned alot from the guys there. Far different from my normal work but certainly interesting.

 

It should be OK. They ship potatoes like that out West. Drive like you have a paper cup of water on the dash. Don't spill it.

 

Or a tall coffee from McD's on the floor ahead of the shifter. he he.

Thank you to others for potato thoughts. We planted a crop one year in a half acre. It did not thrive very well. And the following year was a failure. We swapped to onions the third year with interesting problems. I think those darn onions have gone wild now.

Shows how growing anything is dangerous without any knowledge in those days. Buy seed, dig a hole, put seed in. Wait. Add water when dry. Wait some more. HA...

 

No. They tell you to secure loose items.

 

C’mon, bro.

 

Not to worry, run it. I’ve loaded taters in Florida and taken them to Lays in Wooster, no problem in the hills.