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| this was Our First time growing Potatoes |
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| This Harvest was AWESOME OH My Goodness at the Wonderful Ways we have been using up this Harvest Mashed Potatoes (My Most requested ,teaching the Smith Boys to make them ,All the Smith Men in the Family have always enjoyed joining his wife in the kitchen to make the mashed Potatoes) |
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| My Smitty washes them as we go |
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| Marti (sophia)lol identity crisis for our family Loves to be outside |
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| Home Grown Potatoes TASTE way better than store Bought! |
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| Our Youngest loves to Scratch Potatoes, WHO KNEW LOL he said Moma I'll do the Final Harvesting of the Potatoe Patch For ONE THING Please will YOU make more Potatoe Candy:) its a Smith Family Recipe |
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| He worked all afternoon |
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| He called me over to show Me one ,in the Shape of a HEART |
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| They did well cept the Whites turned a little Green, I was scared to use them for fear of Poisoning everyone, I've been told by several just peel them hope its true! |
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| This Beauty was boiled and made into Candy |
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| Add Powdered Sugar and the Potatoe Melts |
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| Add a slathering of Peanut Butter |
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| Roll it up |
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| Cut into Candy Bites They disappear sooo Fast ! Smitty has missed out on 3 Batches I hid the last Batch just for him lol Chad had a friend stay a couple of days and they ate soo many but he kept saying "where is the Potatoe in this Candy it's so good !" |
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| Red Potatoes and Onion Salad for Supper is YUMMY!! |
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| Next Came the Harvest of Onions we grow these under Black Plastic we planted 200 hundred onions we stored 40 pounds for cooking with squash, potatoe salad,hamburgers,slaw for hotdogs and in the oven hobo style 10 -lbs.jumbo at Harveys is $8.99 so we saved $35.90 by growing our own |
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| These we set in back Bathroom to dry (seems our bathroom gets closed off for use to many Farm Projects lol) |
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| So Shiny, Sweet and Good We took this batch down to my mom and Dads for them to help us chop them up for freezer |
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| Mom worked on the chopping |
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| Daddy ran them through his mini slicer this is a neat gadget |
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| see how nice n tiny they are great for stir fries and soups |
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| My Daddy is such a hard worker and always a story to tell |
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| these bags will go into several gallon freezer bags to be used when needed |
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| just the right size |
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| Both Marty and Marti needed Playtime lol |
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| Great Grandaddy Marty check my foot please lol |
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| we weighed and recorded our little Onion harvest |
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| Chase worked on his Math skills |
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| we put 14 pounds in freezer at walmart a 1 pound bag of frozen onions cost $1.89 so we put up $ 26.46 worth planted 200 onions at $3.00 a set of 100 ,($6.00) so we saved $20.46 with this harvest for our freezer Grand Onion total: of all onions grown is 26.46 +35.96=62.42-6.00=$56.42 plus excersise for my back and kids being outside with me PRICELESS! |
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| Time for Our Garlic Now this has been a learning Curve for me next year way more will be planted and NOTE TO SELF "after harvesting when drying do not let them get RAIN SOAKED :/" they will go mushy and bad! |
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| for several days when I would hang out clothes I would let them dry out on back porch to harden off |
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| we planted from tiny varieties to the Elephant Garlic been wonderful cooking smells AMAZING ! |
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| after the potatoes,onions and Garlic where harvested the 2 and 1/2 men in the Smith Gang tilled up the garden spot ,added new plastic to the right in the pic to get ready for our next harvest of peas,corn and beans:) |
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| And to finish it all Marti got to play in the water Sprinkler:) May You have a Blessed Rest of the Week , Love from Our Smith Gang |
Dang girl you have some awesome things to eat. That is so cool about the potatoes. Man that potato candy looks so good.
ReplyDeleteTy Rochelle , Tim taught me howvto make Potatoes Candy from Aunt Jennifer. Glad you guys had a safe trip. Hugs to all.
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