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| Seed Potatoes |
Today, my sister and I headed over to our community garden plot, affectionately known as "Las Vegan Ranch" to plant some potatoes. This is my first year growing potatoes for food; last spring, I planted some for decorative foliage and they made big, beautiful vines, but very few potatoes, because my yard was too shady. This season, we chose to rent a nice, sunny plot from the city to garden on.
The potatoes are regular Russet potatoes from the grocery store. I bought them in early February and couldn't eat the whole bag, so I put them in a dark cupboard to plant later. The pictures show the potatoes after approx 8 weeks in a dark cupboard. We cut the potatoes up before planting them in the ground to yield more plants. The final tally was 20 potato eye segments planted from 7 potatoes.
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| Cutting Potatoes |
Here is the potato segment in the ground. As the season progresses, I plan to add straw mulch on top of the vines as they grow.
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| Planting Potato In Ground |
Also, we found an abundance of wild growing catnip on the plot, which I dug up to plant in pots at my house for our felines.
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| Basket Of Catnip |
After we were done planting, I played with some new alcohol inks and made a collage. I was using the inks to decorate glass and I decided to put a canvas under the work area to catch any drips and make an artwork out of them to experiment. This is a 12 x 12 canvas with alcohol inks, paper cutouts, and Mod Podge.
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| Alcohol Ink Art Collage |
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