From: pintiha@jhmi.edu   
      
   On Friday, March 27, 2020 at 12:36:45 AM UTC-4, T wrote:   
   > On 2020-03-26 10:28, Pavel314 wrote:   
   > > We finished planting the potatoes today, Thursday, 3/26. We planted the   
   first half on Tuesday but yesterday was raining so we had to wait until today.   
   Hard working in the wet dirt; it sticks to the tools and boots. Didn't   
   Napoleon say something about    
   the mud also sticks to the boots of the enemy?   
   > >    
   > > Paul   
   > >    
   >    
   > Hi Paul,   
   >    
   > I can not eat potatoes anymore (T2 Diabetes), so I will   
   > have to live vicariously though you.  (Lucky you!)   
   >    
   > Did you plant any special variety(ies)?  And is there   
   > no more chance of a freeze?   
   >    
   > And did you miss any potatoes last year that have popped up?   
   >    
   > :-)   
   >    
   > -T   
      
   We planted Purple Viking potatoes. After harvesting last year's crop, we had a   
   lot of small potatoes left over so we saved them as seed potatoes for this   
   year. I used the flat blade of the mattock to carve out three parallel   
   trenches in a 25 foot bed and    
   planted the seed potatoes in the trenches.    
      
   Very unlikely that we'll get any more hard freezes; if we do, I'll cover the   
   bed with a tarp to keep the heat in. We usually plant our potatoes on Saint   
   Patrick's day, but it was rained out this year.    
      
   I haven't noticed any missed potatoes yet but my wife did find a celery plant   
   the other day that seems to have survived winter in the wild quite well.   
      
   Paul   
      
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