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Dug Potatoes

rusty6

rusty6

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Rain showers most of the week so no harvesting in the fields but I did manage to finish digging potatoes between showers. Not a bad crop but not as many as most
years. Ground surface was damp but underneath it was dry. So thats the last garden update for the year in this video.
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potato digging
 
We always used a 5 tine manure fork for tater digging. Worked pretty well with few damaged. As kids wanting to help we would spear a few sometimes, after we got the hang of it we didn't do it to often.
 
I just use a regular long handled shovel. Dig one side then another just outside the row. Still slice a few, but very few. The other nice thing about doing it this way is that I get non-fat potatoes. Cause by the time I plant, hill, weed, and dig them, there is not any fat left in them. At least for me.
 
(quoted from post at 02:56:30 10/05/23) We always used a 5 tine manure fork for tater digging. Worked pretty well with few damaged. As kids wanting to help we would spear a few sometimes, after we got the hang of it we didn't do it to often.
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I've dug potatoes for many years and the hoe method is the one that seems to work best for me. I have an actual 4 tine potato fork but found I speared a few or broke them right in half. Pitch fork, manure fork, same thing. With the hoe I might scrape the skin off one sometimes but its superficial damage and does not affect the storage.
 
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