Potatoes Gardening
How can I keep potatoes longer from sprouting?
Every year I grow potatoes in my garden. I store them in my basement but by spring they start to sprot. I don’t mine the ones I’m going to use as seed potatoes to sprot. But the ones I keep for eating I don’t want them to sprot. If they don’t sprot they will last longer. The potatoes you buy in the stores don’t sprot too fast. What can I do?Do you spray them with some kind of cemical or some thing. I hear that you can put apples with them and they will not sprot.I don’t want my eating potatoes to sport because they become soft and after so long they turn black inside.
The ones that had turned green are the ones exposed to the sun. They were not covered with enough dirt. I know that the green part is poisonous but you would have to eat a lot of green potatoes to hurt you. Did you know they sell the green ones in the stores as green potatoes. What’s up with that?
I do keep them in a cool, dark place. Thank you.
Keep in a cool, dry dark place. And don’t eat if they’re turning green! That part is poisonous (solanine).
Potatoes Gardening
Quick Easy Dinner Recipes: Garden Meatloaf And Low Fat Mashed Potatoes
When you’ve only got a few minutes to cook dinner and you don’t want to eat preservative laden pre-cooked meals, having a traditional meatloaf and mashed potatoes dinner is a great choice for a quick easy dinner meal.
Making an investment in several packages of ground beef, while shopping at your local supermarket, is a good idea as well. If you can catch a sale on beef, that’s even better. This way, when you need to put together a quick meal, you always know you can grab the ground beef and make a meatloaf.
This recipe for Garden Meatloaf uses a total of six ingredients. All you need is two pounds of ground beef, a small onion, some brown sugar, one egg, a jar of salsa and some dry bread crumbs. Most of these ingredients you probably already have in your kitchen or pantry.
You should also invest in a couple of loaf pans to make baking your meatloaf a piece of cake. You’ll create a mildly spicy loaf that is pretty tasty. This loaf takes about an hour to bake.
=> Garden Meatloaf
1-1/2 pounds ground beef chuck, 1/2 cup chopped onion, 1/2 cup brown sugar, 1 egg, beaten, 1 (15 oz.) jar chunky salsa, 1-1/2 cups dry bread crumbs.
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Prepare a 9×5-inch loaf pan with cooking spray.
In a large bowl, combine the beef chuck, onion, brown sugar, egg, salsa and bread crumbs. Mix thoroughly with a large spoon or your hands.
Place the meatloaf mixture into the loaf pan; gently press down. Bake for one hour, or until the loaf is firm and lightly browned. Take loaf out of the oven and let it cool for 5 to 10 minutes before serving.
When having meatloaf, it’s hard not to think of having mashed potatoes as a side dish. Meatloaf just seems to taste better with fluffy potatoes. Since our Garden Meatloaf is pretty lean and healthy, we will continue this healthy theme to our mashed potatoes.
To save time, you can make the mashed potatoes while the meatloaf is in the oven cooking. These Low Fat Mashed Potatoes have a total of seven ingredients: baking potatoes, shallots, yogurt, salt and pepper, nutmeg and butter.
=> Low Fat Mashed Potatoes
2 pounds of baking potatoes, peeled and quartered, 2 large shallots, thinly sliced, 1 teaspoon salt, 1/2 cup plain nonfat yogurt, 1/8 teaspoon black pepper, dash of nutmeg (optional), 1-1/2 cup of butter, cut into 4 slices.
In a large saucepan, add in all of the quartered potatoes and the sliced shallots. Add enough cold water to the pan to cover the potatoes by one inch. Add in 1/2 teaspoon of salt.
Bring potatoes to a boil. Reduce heat. Cover the pan and cook the potatoes for 15 to 20 minutes, or until they are tender. Reserve 3/4 cup of the cooking water. Drain the potatoes in a colander.
Return the potatoes and shallots to the pan and mash with a potato masher, until nice and smooth. With an electric mixer on medium setting, beat in the yogurt and enough of the reserved cooking water to make potatoes smooth and fluffy.
Beat in the remaining salt, pepper and nutmeg. If you wish to make the potatoes warm for serving, cook them over low heat, stirring occasionally, until they’re nice and hot. Serve with butter.
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gardening some potatoes?
ok so the plants are rwally big, they had thier flowers and still have some. but after the flower died or whatever, these little balls grew in and we domt know what they are and if they are supposed to be there. are they supposed to be there? what are they?
Let me guess they look sort of like Tomatoes? Those are the true fruit of the potato plant. The potato itself is just a tuberous root.
They are poisonous, so don’t eat them. Also, if you have pets or even pests, pick them and toss them so they won’t eat them.
Also, there is no need to keep the seeds since the plants won’t grow true to seed. Most of the time the plants don’t actually grow fruit, but if you are growing Yukon Gold you will probably see quite a few as that hybrid seems to set fruit often.
2011 Garden Potato Harvest #3
