Potatoes!

So, by now our potatoes should be in the ground, but some troublesome logistics are keeping us from getting the field tilled for them.  they arrived in two VERY HEAVY boxes back at the end of March.  Several types of fingerling potatoes, and a huge box full of purple potatoes.  While purple potatoes may sound a bit off, we think we've already got a good market in place for them, and hope to have lots of success.  Anyway, the potatoes arrived, and have been pre-sprouting in our guest bedroom for the past few weeks.

Around the time the potatoes arrived, we also built a small greenhouse in our back yard to expand our nursery.  We build a frame out of an old craft-fair booth, using part of a pallet as the base.  Probably not the most effective green house ever built, but a great re-use of materials we already have.  It doesn't hold heat that well through the night, but during the day it warms up quickly and stays enough above the outside temp for us to move some of our more delicate plants outside for the day.