Planting Late Potatoes

We finally got our potatoes in the ground! The OSU Planting Calendar says that you should have them in by August 15th so we'll hope the growing season is two extra days long this year. Chelsea spent the morning cutting up 100 lbs of red and yellow potatoes while I rigged up a potato planting attachment to put on the bed maker sled.






It is little more than two pipes stuck in the ground to drop pieces of potato in. It worked pretty well for such a podunk contraption - it just takes a lot of horsepower to pull to big dumb pipes through the soil at a depth of about 6".

The weather was very strange - it would threaten to rain and we'd get all motivated about our chores and then the sun would come out instead. Very strange indeed.

-Don