POTATOES !!!
We harvested our SPUDs in Tubs and had such a fun time exploring how potatoes grow and what other creatures and things we could find in the soil.
We grew 15 Warba potato plants in 3 tubs and at first we didn’t know what the harvest would be like. Our weather has been so strange the past few months going from cold, to rainy, back to cold, then to super hot and all over again. Ideally we would have liked to harvest in another week or so but with year end festivities we were running out of time, and the weather cleared up on Wednesday just long enough for us to do the harvest.
Some of the great things we found during our harvest were: potatoes and lots of them, all different sizes and the seed potatoes that started the whole process. Bugs – spiders, bugs with lots of legs, bugs with wings and some we didn’t know what they were. The class were great at picking out all the potatoes no matter how big or small and dusting them off before we packed four ice cream pails full to the brim. The students then sorted through the dirt to remove any leftover roots, stems and leaves before we put the soil into the new planter that had been built in the front of the school. Once back in the class we sorted our bounty by size. Our total was 123 medium/large potatoes and 129 mini potatoes that would have grown into edible ones had we let them grow a bit longer.
The best part of all was eating the steamed potatoes on Thursday with sour cream, cheese and ketchup as toppings. Even some of us who aren’t fans enjoyed the delicious food that we grew.