Taters and Wheat

Busy day last Tuesday. We dug all the taters.

This year we planted German Butterball variety. We had never tried them before, but they had the word “butter” in the title, so Mommy had to have them.

We also found a volunteer tomato, looks like it came from one of last year’s costolutos.

Lots of ripe and ripening tomatoes, but, disappointingly, pretty bland, not a lot of flavor. Sometimes you can’t tell what you’re going to get in the second generation with tomatoes. I will say it’s heartening to see that after liming the tomato row heavily in the spring we haven’t had any issues with blossom end rot this year. We also don’t have any ripe tomatoes of the tomatoes we planted, so… there’s that.

“Dada! Winnie hat! Tato!”

Not a bad haul for 12$ of seed potato and two hours of work (that includes planting, hilling and harvesting).

After we finished harvesting the ‘tatos, we harrowed their patch and planted it with a soil building cover crop. Then we lightly cultivated the legume row that we cleared last week, and planted our winter wheat.

Ellie is very good at this. She likes spreading the seed, and she doesn’t rush through it. She pays attention to how evenly and how thickly she is spreading it, and made the second half of the sack of seed we bought last year cover the entire 210 sq ft row.

Waiting for Wednesday’s rain to water it in.

Last bit of gardening for the day. Some of the corn is finally tasseling, and we were able to find 8 ears of decent size with brown tassels.

Nothing better than fresh sweet corn rolled in butter, and this year she has the front teeth to enjoy them!