Potato Digging

Reader Contribution by Sherry Leverich Tucker
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Sometime in June and before the first
week in July it is time to dig potatoes in the Ozarks. By this time
of year the days are hot, so making an early morning chore of the
digging is a pretty good idea.  It’s a lot more fun and the work goes
quicker if the whole family pitches in to help and have fun finding
all the hidden treasures!

When I was growing up I helped plant
and dig up potatoes in this very garden.  We grow a whole lot less
potatoes then we did then, though, because my family doesn’t eat near
the amount of potatoes and most of what we grow we sell at our local
farmers market.  We would grow up to 13, 125 foot, rows of potatoes
when I was young, but now we grow no more than 6 rows.  It actually
takes longer to sort and prepare to store the potatoes than it does
to dig them up.  

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