Tater Tower

Many of you know I'm a huge Pintrest fan. I love trying new things I've learned on the site. One of the things I tried was a Tater Tower I found here:

http://urbanfarmerseward.posterous.com/potato-towers-and-living-fence-posts

We even made it into a family challenge and got my Mom, brother and a friend from Florida to join in on the fun. I'm waiting to see how theirs turn out.

I have taken picture of the Medusa looking growth in my tower, but I can't find those pictures right now. :( Just take my word for it. I had a huge amount of growth outside of the tower. It was neat!

When Medusa started to wilt and die back and the farmers around here started to harvest their potatoes I figured it was time to harvest ours too. After some pool time, the kids and I decided it was a good time to dig out tater. We made a big mess, had some fun, but didn't get a lot of potatoes. 

We planted red, yellow and white potatoes. The red potatoes did best, but that's not saying a whole lot. The post said you could grow 25 lbs of potatoes, yeah right! We didn't come close to that amount. We had lots of tiny tater, the size of Eden and Josiah's little fingers. Maybe we dug them up to soon? Maybe we didn't plant or water them enough? There are lots of maybes. The one thing I do know is tomorrow we will be having mashed potatoes for dinner :)

 Eden with a big find

 This was after I pulled the fence off and before the mess began.

(That's hay on top)

Our 1st tater harvest.

It will be neat for our kids to eat what we grew.



Starting our Garden

What would Gilbreath Garden Blog be without pictures of our latest garden???:) 

As warmer days have begun to peek through the nasty winter days we've had, the desire to get dirt under my nails and some home grown produce started has peeked. So I took the kids on a special trip to wal-mart to get a starter kit and some seeds. I hope that our kids will grow to love gardening and maybe eat some of the produce we grow.

 Eden took her job of wetting the soil very seriously. Each disk was given individual attention.

 The seeds we started. The kids picked them out :)

 Less than a week later we have sprouts!

Eden was so happy with the quick progress of her seeds.

I love seeing the little sprouts about to peek through the dirt.