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Potato Day part 2.
(You didn't miss photos. I never got around to posting them last night.)

I dumped my potato bags yesterday and then started helping my friend with the potatoes I planted in his yard, but then we discovered red ants.

I've already had two red ant bites this summer, and I'm good with never experiencing another one ever. I don't know why something so small makes a bite that feels like 10 mosquitoes bit you on the exact same spot. But I don't like it.

So picked up with the potatoes today, also started sorting for seed potatoes. I guess I'm going to need to make a thread because I want to attach a bunch of pictures.

Also:
WTF eats potatoes UNDERGROUND? That last photo of the set, I dug it up that way.

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Sep 2, 2025 at 10:52pmWeb
Show threadGigi 🍄‍🟫Sep 3, 2025

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Saving seed potatoes.
I gently brush the soil off my seed potatoes and store them over winter in sterile sand.

Prepping the sand involves sifting out any bits that got in it over the summer or while I was growing stuff last year, and any small rocks that came in the play sand.

(Yes I have a lot of Temptations containers because my cat is spoiled. I love him. Too bad. They told me he had lung cancer and was going to die 7 years ago. It turned out to be endogenous lipoid pneumonia, and he is still hanging in there. That is just another one of the many common items that I recycle while gardening.)

I actually thought I took a picture of the blue potatoes before I dump the sand on them, but apparently I did not. So that's a Sieglinde on a bed of sand, and once I have enough seed potatoes, I'll cover the whole thing with sand and put it in a dark dry place.

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Show threadGigi 🍄‍🟫Sep 3, 2025

I have blanched and frozen so much zucchini already. And still it grows.

Why can't I have this many eggplants?

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