potatoes .start to finish,and sweetcorn patch

I have shown most of these pictures before,but this is this first time I posted them start to finish.

Larry,

Never gets old looking at them again.Sure makes it easier when you have all the correct implements.

Thanks for posting

Vito

I would love to post some new pictures, I hope to get more this season. Dont know if I am going to plant the big garden again, I love it ,but nobody really likes it but me, I cant complain,Isure have some great memorys.The potato patch will be planted again for sure.

Thanks for sharing, Larry! I enjoy the pics and the work ethic of you and your neighbors.

That was how it was done in my teen years eighty acres at a time. At the end of harvest you were sure you did not want to see that digger for a year, and then it did not thrill you none...Great pictures Larry, I am just glad that I am not the picker.

I post items on fb about local farming, would like to add your pics to an album.

My sister asked what part of PA you lived in, she likes the pics you post here.

We are in Lehigh county,you can post the pictures,where will they be? I would like to see the site you post them on,,,,Larry

Forgot to add, i live in Maryland, we used an old plant setter made by New Idea to plant our potatoes. We would end up using hoes to dig up the potatoes. The sweetcorn patch we would plant by hand, it wasnt feasible to try to use a planter for it.

would make great potatoe soup on a cold winter night

I will add them to my facebook page as an album

Hi Larry, I notice by your pictures that you have a FEW milk crates?? Count them up sometime and I will have a contest with you to see who has the most containers. Cheers, Murray

Larry, this is me doing the same in our colder wetter part of the world. I missed the pics when planting as we had a huge black sky and got soaked planting the last few yards...no time to look for a camera. I grow organically and when the spuds are in a few weeks I grub with my tiller down between the rows(2nd pic), then take off the tops with a hand graipe(3rd pic) and earth them up again. My early potatoes, planted the last week of February are well ahead at this stage(4th pic)I dug my first earlies the last week of June. The maincrop had just got the final cultivating then and were now touching across the rows, a crucial time for spraying fungicide for blight control. We had broad beans and cabbage ready at that time of year for to eat with the spuds, our hens produced the egg and my brother made the sausages!
Despite all my spraying, every week this year, they did take blight at the beginning of Sept. and we had to remove the stalks immediately, which stopped the growing, but we have enough to do all year. The last pic is my wife and my mate helping to gather the last drill of Blues which have super flavour but do not crop well!

Very nice pictures! Thanks for posting them! Maybe someday I will visit Ireland,I do have some Irish blood.

Where in Maryland? I have relatives in Maryland.

Larry@stines,
Really neat pics. I wondered what kind of planter that was, when you posted it in the "rust" post. Now I know.

Samn40,
Also nice photos. I'd never of thought of having cabbage or beans with eggs and sausage - but it looks very good.