Gardening Woes

This is why photographic evidence is not admitted in a court of law. There weren't actually this many potato beetle larvae on my plants, but it sure seemed like it. It's sort of photographic exaggeration. In reality, there were about 5 in this one area. Still, in all the years I've gardened, I've never (repeat NEVER) before seen a potato beetle, let alone have an infestation.

All of this, while I'm still pondering why I'm raising potatoes in the first place. We just don't eat that many potatoes. And this spring we had to throw out a basketful of sprouted and spoiled potatoes from the basement. So it's difficult to get motivated to do all the weeding, tilling, and hilling so that we can throw out potatoes next spring.

This year,  I will give potatoes away so they don't get to that point! I just have to remember that they're in the basement. You know, out of sight, out of mind?

So why do we raise potatoes? Because we can, and because it seems like the responsible thing to do, especially in a ever-worsening economy. And because most years we get potatoes* that look like this:

Thank you to the grandson who posed for this pic. :-)

*...imagine a time when the worst thing we could dredge up about a politician was that he couldn't spell potato! Actually, I think I've mentioned this before, but it seemed worth repeating. :-)