This is my first basket of potatoes. The basket on the right contains baby potatoes which I will throw back in the garden.
This is the Christmas record of Richard and Karen Carpenters which I was listening to as I worked in the garden
Yesterday, I was not able to do all the work I want to do in the garden in the morning because my Mum and I went out with Daisy who gave us a lunch treat.
After I watched a midday movie, I thought it would not be a bad idea to do some gardening so I would not have a great backlog. So I would be inspired while working I put on the phonograph Carpenters Christmas Portrait and turned its volume up.
I added compost to one of the garden beds I made after all the construction work at the extension of the house and which I particularly made to grow chillies. I also started pulling out weeds when I caught sight of two potato plants which just grew possibly from the potato peelings I threw in the garden bed. The plants were overgrown and were unsightly. I thought these would just overcrowd and deprived the chillies nutrients so I pulled them out mercilessly.
To my surprise, few potatoes of different sizes started rolling down from the sloping garden bed. I dug out for more potatoes and found more and more potatoes. Oh, WoW! I was not expecting I would have this many potatoes. The soil in this garden bed was not as good as the soil which the tradespeople used with the broken concrete to construct an elevated driveway. I was not thinking the potato plants would have tubers because the soil I used to make this garden bed was from the soil dug outside so I could grow Swan River daisies next to my fence. In fact I asked the man whom I paid to dig this out to just throw the heap in the bin. He advised me however to keep the soil.
I heeded his advice. After all, the man was the brother of the agriculturist old man who used to work for me. It paid off listening to veteran gardeners or agriculturists. I got my first basket of potatoes effortless in my entire career in gardening. Yippee!
