This spring I bought potato seed for my sons who both garden but had never raised potatoes as a lark I planted 5 potatoes in my tires that I grew tomatoes in last year.
I went out yesterday with a fork and poke into the dirt and "graveled" for new potatoes. I slipped the skin and put my green beans back on the stove with the potatoes and boiled them again. I had them for dinner.
The term graveled came from my childhood when we went to the potato patch with a fork and poked it in the ground to find small potatoes. My mother would roll them in corn meal and fry them. food to die for.
My niece Cheryl Ann is going to come and pick my beans next week and I hope I can gravel a few for her while she is here.
My neighbor has gone back to California and she told me before she left that I could have the apples on her 2 apple trees. I am not able to pick the apples it would be to far for me to carry them but I thought since Cheryl is a glutton for work maybe I could get her to come and harvest them.
I guess the price of fuel and food has hit the pocket books of our people on the hill. We had very few fire works last night. I am glad! I hate the the noise of rockets going off all night.
NEWS ALERT: I SAW REPORTS THAT THERE ARE DEEP RUTS IN THE PAVEMENT BETWEEN HERE AND POTTSVILLE AR. THEY SAID SOME OLD WOMEN HAD BEEN TRAVELING THE ROAD SO OFTEN SHE HAD RUINED THE HIGH WAY!
2 comments:
Patsy, I like green beans even better with new potatoes in them. That is the way my mother used to fix them. I never heard of "graveling". I am glad you explained it. They were still setting off firecrackers at 3 a.m. in my neighborhood. I was scared to death one was going to land on my roof!
I will pick the apples also. I would love to help.
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