Spuds go in!

Planting 3/4 of an acre of potatoes is a job for lots of hands!

 First, we cut up all the seed potatoes....

 Then we lay them out to dry a bit...

Then we bring them out to our far field across the street...

 And drop them into trenches 400 feet long!  Boy, is that a long row.  When you're carrying a bucket of potatoes.

 As dark rain clouds threatened on the horizon, we just barely got the last of them dropped in!  It was almost too dark to see anything, as I plowed along in high gear on the tractor, throwing dirt back over the potatoes, burying them just enough.  We had a crew of all-star helpers who stayed until 8:30pm, our interns Mike & Jon working their first 11-hour farm day!  Troopers, I knew it.

And it rained nicely overnight.  Wake up, little spuds, it's time to start growing!