"The same boiling water that softens potatoes hardens eggs. It's all about what you're made of not your circumstances."I am looking forward to the weekend. One more day. I have big plans on Saturday. I'm going to put some potatoes in the ground. I've already checked the weather. It looks like it will be cloudy, but I should be able to plant. While Tricia was at the feed store picking up some Dairy Ration for the cows, she purchased some seed potatoes for me. These are the LaSoda variety.
A week before planting I always cut them up and let them "scab" over to keep them from rotting in the ground.
Some planting guides tell you that you can plant the potatoes whole. You certainly can, but I like to cut the potatoes into chunks with each chunk having an eye. Each eye will grow a potato plant.
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| The eyes have it! |
That is a wild looking sight! What is it, you ask? Those are some potatoes we grew in the Spring of 2018 and harvested in May. We kept some small ones and rather than rotting, they sprouted. Since May they've patiently waited to be put in the ground. Saturday, their wait will be over.
Last year the feed store was out of La Soda potatoes. These are Pontiac potatoes. They'll do just fine. I found that they didn't produce quite as much in yield as the La Sodas, but that's okay. For these, I won't cut them up. They are all shriveled up, but they have lots of sprouts and a real will to survive.
I read an inspiring story from HERE about an egg, a potato, and some coffee. I'll post it here:
Once upon a time, a daughter complained to her father that her life was miserable and that she didn’t know how she was going to make it. She was tired of fighting and struggling all the time. It seemed just as one problem was solved, another one soon followed. Her father, a chef, took her to the kitchen. He filled three pots with water and placed each on a high fire.
Once the three pots began to boil, he placed potatoes in one pot, eggs in the second pot and ground coffee beans in the third pot. He then let them sit and boil, without saying a word to his daughter. The daughter moaned and impatiently waited, wondering what he was doing. After twenty minutes he turned off the burners. He took the potatoes out of the pot and placed them in a bowl. He pulled the eggs out and placed them in a bowl. He then ladled the coffee out and placed it in a cup.
Turning to her, he asked. “Daughter, what do you see?” “Potatoes, eggs and coffee,” she hastily replied.
“Look closer”, he said, “and touch the potatoes.” She did and noted that they were soft.
He then asked her to take an egg and break it. After pulling off the shell, she observed the hard-boiled egg.
Finally, he asked her to sip the coffee. Its rich aroma brought a smile to her face.
“Father, what does this mean?” she asked.
He then explained that the potatoes, the eggs and coffee beans had each faced the same adversity-the boiling water. However, each one reacted differently. The potato went in strong, hard and unrelenting, but in boiling water, it became soft and weak. The egg was fragile, with the thin outer shell protecting its liquid interior until it was put in the boiling water. Then the inside of the egg became hard. However, the ground coffee beans were unique. After they were exposed to the boiling water, they changed the water and created something new.
“Which one are you?” he asked his daughter. “When adversity knocks on your door, how do you respond? Are you a potato, an egg, or a coffee bean?”
Moral: In life, things happen around us, things happen to us, but the only thing that truly matters is how you choose to react to it and what you make out of it. Life is all about leaning, adopting and converting all the struggles that we experience into something positive.
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