I love potatoes and eat them all ways possible! I love meatless lentil "shepards pie" with a nice thick layer of mashed potatoes on top. Baked and bubbly it is so nourishing and comforting.
You make potato growing look so easy! Would you believe that has been my most challenging crop? I think it is the clay soil. Do you ever have to deal with potato beetles? We do have a small crop planted this year and for the first time it looks very promising.
I canned some potatoes last year just to try it. In my opinion canned potatoes are terrible. The flavour and texture changes and I find them very unpleasant to eat. I'll never do it again. I have been wondering about dehydrating potatoes. I've never done that but it might be interesting to do a little bit that way.
Fresh is best though. I love your idea of the buckets in the ground. I wonder how cold is too cold when doing that? I'll have to look into that.
Beautiful crop!
The first dehydrated vegetable I ever saw was a dehydrated sliced potato. it was being used as a demonstration on how to rehydrate and use dehydrated potatoes.
It looked disgusting, gray and hard, in its dehydrated form. But she dropped it in a glass of water and an hour later it looked like it had just been sliced off a potato. Amazing!
I've not tried to dehydrate them myself, as I have a root cellar with a potato box and they keep fine there.
Mmm the Shepard pie sounds lovely. Another comment that makes we wish we had an oven although I should try the in the solar oven..
Huh, sorry to hear you've had issues growing them, But stoked this year's crop looks good. Haha. I imagine canned potato being the YUCK you described. Not tickled by the Idea.
My 2 cents on ground temps is that is would be cool below the frost line. It should stay at a constant 55 f or 15 C or so. The earth stays cool if you just keep diggin.