Each year we try to get a small plot of potatoes in the ground around St. Patrick’s day. For Utah this is really early. Our main crop potatoes don’t go in until our last frost date which is about May 15th. But these “early” potatoes are meant for a very special purpose. You see Mrs. [...]
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And then there were none!
February 5th, 2012 
Rick Tuesday night of this week we ate the last of our garden potatoes! It is hard to believe we ate all 170 pounds. I was hoping they would last another month or more but we have had several casseroles over the last couple of weeks that used them up. It happened so fast I didn’t [...]
Preparing and storing Potatoes
October 14th, 2011 Rick Once our potatoes are out of the ground we like to take them inside our garage and lay them out on our makeshift table to dry. Of course it would be even better if you could set them on some kind of screen to improve the air circulation, but we simply grow way too many [...]
Digging Main Crop Potatoes
October 13th, 2011 Rick Any one that is really serious about being self reliant has to include potatoes in their garden. I have read authors who say at least a 1/3 of your total garden space needs to be reserved for potatoes. That can be a lot of space. The good thing about potatoes is they are really a [...]
Harvest Monday 9-26-11
September 26th, 2011 Rick It was another busy harvest week here at Stoney Acres. This week will actually be the biggest total harvest week of the year. We dug our main crop potatoes on Saturday which will always bring up the totals!! Between the two types we planted, we dug a total of 160 lbs. We do have about [...]
