Gardening for Old Folks (Adaptative)

[cavemanrich]

huckleberry gold and a red fingerling.

I had to look these up from interest.
They appear to all be small potatoes. How do you cook yours,,, Do you peel, or just scrub clean,, and use with skins??
Second question; The red fingerlings show different kinds with Red skin, but different flesh. Some are yellow, and others have different tones besides the yellow.
Now I'm getting hungry just thinking about these potatoes.. I will have to find some at whatever grocery store that may carry such.
That is one reason I wondered how you cooked them... with skins, or peeled.
The more I write about potatoes,,,,,, the more hungry I turn.
I know I can locate Yukons' easily,,, so I just might have to get a sack,,, and skillet fry them up for dinner. Now I'm really hungry

 

[bruceha2000]

I have no idea where one would find a burlap bag these days! Everything is in the big plastic (hopefully from recycled plastic) bags. Last time I saw a burlap bag was probably over 50 years ago. We had them when we went out mackerel fishing on the charter boats in So. Cal.. Fish go in the bag, at the end of the day the bags went to the cannery and we would swap for canned mackerel (plus some money I suppose, I was young then ).

 

[R2elk]

I have no idea where one would find a burlap bag these days! Everything is in the big plastic (hopefully from recycled plastic) bags. Last time I saw a burlap bag was probably over 50 years ago. We had them when we went out mackerel fishing on the charter boats in So. Cal.. Fish go in the bag, at the end of the day the bags went to the cannery and we would swap for canned mackerel (plus some money I suppose, I was young then ).

I think they stopped putting feed in them around 30 years ago. I still have burlap sacks from buying feed.

 

[jvls1942]

i don't know the best container to store them, I once used
milk crates stacked on each other about four high.
the shoots from the bottom made it all the way to the top.
the best luck I had was when I built a wooden slatted box . I slanted
the bottom like a chicken feeder so we could take the potatoes from
the bottom.
once I buried carrots in boxes of sand in the basement.
the cat figured the sand was for her. rotted the whole box of carrots.
once we bought a 25 pound sack of carrots. put them into a refrigerator.
they kept very well.. I imagine potatoes would too.

 

[Molpet]

I had to look these up from interest.
They appear to all be small potatoes. How do you cook yours,,, Do you peel, or just scrub clean,, and use with skins??
Second question; The red fingerlings show different kinds with Red skin, but different flesh. Some are yellow, and others have different tones besides the yellow.
Now I'm getting hungry just thinking about these potatoes.. I will have to find some at whatever grocery store that may carry such.
That is one reason I wondered how you cooked them... with skins, or peeled.
The more I write about potatoes,,,,,, the more hungry I turn.
I know I can locate Yukons' easily,,, so I just might have to get a sack,,, and skillet fry them up for dinner. Now I'm really hungry

I have only seen these online and not at a store.
The huckleberry get big, some were bigger than Yukon Gold.
The fingerlings were small with reddish flesh. Different texture than the 2 golds.

I scrub and cook. Roast with bychicken or byturkey. I also chop and microwave with onion, about a half cup each a small of each, and a tablespoon of olive oil,for 2 minutes. Then stir ,add 3 cups frozen veggies and microwave for 5 minutes . Then stir , add a chopped clove of garlic and microwave for 2 minutes. I like well cooked veggies so cooking times may vary.

 

[Molpet]

I have been storing in about ft square cardboard boxes so they get air and if one goes bad I lose one box. I sort by size and if damaged. keep them in the house when it's hot outside. Green are put aside for seed potatoes.
When it cools down I check the boxes for bad and put the boxes in Styrofoam coolers in the garage against an inside wall. The cover is loose so they can breathe but little light. The ones by outside wall frozen and didn't thaw well.

I have only harvest the fingerlings and half of the others. Most are still growing, more shade I think.

ETA I used to store in buckets of sand with the top layer not covered so the cat left them alone, but the dog liked to eat raw potatoes lol

 

[R2elk]

i don't know the best container to store them, I once used
milk crates stacked on each other about four high.
the shoots from the bottom made it all the way to the top.
the best luck I had was when I built a wooden slatted box . I slanted
the bottom like a chicken feeder so we could take the potatoes from
the bottom.
once I buried carrots in boxes of sand in the basement.
the cat figured the sand was for her. rotted the whole box of carrots.
once we bought a 25 pound sack of carrots. put them into a refrigerator.
they kept very well.. I imagine potatoes would too.

Keeping potatoes in the refrigerator will increase the sugar content of the potatoes.

 

[Molpet]

Keeping potatoes in the refrigerator will increase the sugar content of the potatoes.

I heard that if they are taken out days ahead of time the sugar converts back.

I wouldn't have room in the refrigerator for most of a years worth of potatoes

 

[jvls1942]

I heard that if they are taken out days ahead of time the sugar converts back.

I wouldn't have room in the refrigerator for most of a years worth of potatoes

for fifteen years we had a group home here.
we gave that up a couple of months ago.
but we still have two refrigerators. two upright freezers
and two chest freezers. all full of food. now with just the
two of us, we are trying to empty at least one of the freezers.
eventually we want to work down to just one of each.

 

[Molpet]

for fifteen years we had a group home here.
we gave that up a couple of months ago.
but we still have two refrigerators. two upright freezers
and two chest freezers. all full of food. now with just the
two of us, we are trying to empty at least one of the freezers.
eventually we want to work down to just one of each.

Just me and I have 2 refrigerators and a small and a big chest freezer. Mostly jugs of ice in the one freezer. I swap them out when I process poultry.