Loved it. We can learn a lot from our elders if only we slow down enough to listen. One of the greatest assets this country has is the knowledge and experiences of our elders. VG's are going to be popular again, I suspect. Thanks for posting, that was great.
Regards and God bless...
Thanks for the comment...much appreciated. And, yes, there is so very much that we have to learn from our elders.
Thanks so much for these posts on your mother's garden! I'd be most grateful if you could ask her when they planted the potatoes. I have a hard time getting a potato crop in my garden in Lockhart (central Texas). If I plant them too early, they're likely to suffer frost damae. Too late, and they suffer from the heat. I seldom get a good potato crop, although I almost always get to eat some small new potatoes.
Will do...they were closer to the coast, but I'll ask...
Thanks for the comment.
No luck...she doesn't remember. If you haven't found it already, you might look at Sunset magazine's Climate Zones...more subtle than the government's map...might help you better ascertain the best time for planting taters in Lockhart.
Not wanting to "disappoint someone who took the time to ask a question" my mom did some deeper thinking about the potatoes.
She says that my paternal grandfather's rule (for Central Texas plantings) was to say the objective was get the potatoes in before St. Patrick's Day. She also said that her dad, if she remembers correctly, liked to have them in by the end of February (for coastal Texas).
She also said that her dad used a "double row" for potato plantings. And that her mom always creamed the first 'taters with fresh milk and homegrown parsley.
HTH.
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