Potatoes in the ground

What a whirlwind day.  We finally got a break in the weather and the ground was dry enough to disc the garden.  Then all the rows were laid off and the potato plow was used to lay off those furrows.

Then it was time to cut the three hundred pounds of potatoes.  With the potato cutter it took only a couple of hours.

If you look close you can see the seed potato sitting on top of a grid of stainless steel knives.

This is the potato being ready to push through the knife grid to give a chunk of potato with an eye.  It takes the eye to grow the plant.  This cutter was purchased through US Small Farms in Wyoming.  I found them on the internet and they specialize in equipment for the small farmer.

This is about two hundred pounds of the cut potatoes.  The easy part is cutting.  They still have to go in the ground.  That process took about three hours since the furrows were already done the day before.  Now it is all up to mother nature to work her magic.  Harvest time is predicted to be early October.