These are some of the potatoes. There are peas, beans,tomatoes and other veggies hidden by the potatoes. Potatoes are not ready here until about the second week of September. We tried a few for the fun of it and they were not too bad a size for being so early. Some of the potatoes, a few peppers on the left ( photo / image / picture from Chrisle's Garden ) Here are the ones we tried ( photo / image / picture from Chrisle's Garden ) A bee busy on the yellow beans ( photo / image / picture from Chrisle's Garden )
Those potatoes really aren't bad for not being fully developed yet. Some years, here in Scotland, I'd be more than happy with ones like those. Our weather is so unpredictable that crops here are a bit hit and miss.
Those potatoes are just fine! You'll have a bumper crop (so I hope they are good keepers!). Your bee looks happy on your beans. Everything is so GREEN--right now I envy you your cooler summer while we wait to put in the fall garden.
This just reminded me of a concept that I had seen on TV about 25 years ago. A class of students in some agriculture university of Pakistan had successfully grafted Tomatoes on top of Potato plants. I had forgotten all about it, but don't know why - Chrisle's first picture reminded me of that. Of course, 25 years ago there was no internet. So I had no way of knowing exactly how they did it. But now (thanks to modern communications technology) - I was able to find out that it is actually not an obscure method at all! Many people in the world seem to be doing it today (see links below). See picture: http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-dwBDF8zs-D8/T ... V13832.jpg See video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6V_X77CeTcs Anyway, thanks for reminding me of something that I had forgotten.
I would be more than happy with those potatoes. I'm sure they will taste lovely. Keep up the good work
S-H thanks for the info on the tomato/potato plant. That is very interesting. They are both from the night shade family so maybe that is why it can be done. Hmmm so is a pepper. I wonder if I can graft one of those on there as well. A potato/tomato/pepper plant. That would be totally awesome! Writing that down for a new experiment for next spring.
Make sure to record everything on video - And later upload it at your YouTube channel! This way should anyone later claim of being the first to have done that - Your uploaded video (with it's time and date stamp), will become irrefutable proof of you being the first!
