potatoe patch, early morning
a cloth from Cloth to Cloth just made for pleasure, and although there is Story, it is not to me, a story cloth. my question to self is….. why is this so.
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i am waiting for your answer.
do you have to supplement the soil there?LikeLike
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there IS NO soil here of it’s own accord. there is sand. for
about 18″ and then, clay. it was the flood plain for the Rio
Grande that wandered like a dragon until it was captured.
the answer is
YES and YES and YES.
anything and everything. i let a lot of the plant matter stay
through the winter and decompose some and in spring dig it in.
Compost…from my own kitchen and sometimes from any where else
i can get it. about 5 years ago i bought bags of composted soil
for the raised beds, but only once.
every year, loads of manure…here horse works well.
i have to go see to the Old Cowboy but when i get back, i’ll tell
the story of my
worms.LikeLike
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if you were thinking particularly about the potatoes…
i grew them last year in a different place that had not
been amended with anything but a load of horse manure.
that year i grew regular potatoes and the fingerlings…
both did extremely well. had LOTS and took them up to
the farmer’s market.
potatoes are not picky. i love them.LikeLike
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good crop of taties, do you know the type?
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these window images are so intriguing, it’s interesting that the light shining through gives a visual strength to the cloth- makes it even more.
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i love this, especially how you have the thread winding down through the patchwork. its meandering seems positively Fraught with Story.
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A lovely patch of potatoes…
As for whether your cloth is story cloth or not…for me I would be thinking about where the fabric came from, someone’s clothing? My clothing? A gift from someone? What is the history of the cloth. And as soon as there is a history, there is a story. But that’s me…LikeLike
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P.S. Have you ever saved your own potato seed? I’ve always been hesitant, but after reading The Resilient Gardner I’m absolutely going to this year.
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Grace…after reading ‘potato patch’…I expected the next photo caption to read ‘nine patch’! But maybe that would be on Jude’s blog! Ha!
As far as the cloth goes, most things have a story to me (like Deb G)…so either we have a different meaning for story or I don’t yet understand what cloth story is…I don’t know. I think there must be a lot of story in there wrapped up with so much beauty. I love how the top weft piece moves from bigger to smaller, kind of like the mathematical ‘more than’ sign…and how the center weft pieces hold together over more warp showing such a strength. I believe our world would be much better if we all had super strong centers, cores…to protect us from the harshness we may encounter. And the thread weaving its way through…leaving me to wonder where it may go next.
I truly love this little woven wonder.LikeLike
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the top two pictures match to me. the top strips of cloth looking like the color of some real good soil. the nine patch the color of potatoes when they’ve been skinned and left out too long. so beautiful.
i’ve been dreaming of potato sacks nicely folded for days now. in the dreams, i think how beautiful they are and how comforting to know they are there.LikeLike
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twhich!!!!!!!!!!! and here you ARE.
not just that, which is beyond enough, but you bring
with you a dream
potato sacks
nicely folded
beautiful
comforting
i love you.LikeLike
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I somehow think of singing when I see the words a lovely potato patch… a lovely potato sack.. potato potaaato.. ahhh well .. i am putting of the necessary things of the day to read blogs .. love your potatoes .. I want to grow potatoes but I haven’t a clue. My yard is covered in shade from all the trees so high. Have a lovely day!
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i do.
Ruby Crescent fingerlings
“rare and beautiful rosy colored fingerlings with
moderately dry yellow flesh. Splendid baked or boiled.”
from Seeds of Change an organic grower/seed catalogue.
i have had very good luck with them in the past. they
are relatively small…disease/insect resistent and do
well in this kind of intense enviornment.
i LOVE them baked with other root vegetables…slathered
in olive oil, baked with garlic onion beets turnips
rutabega carrots etc. it is an ecstatic experience. oh,
and drizzled with tamari…
i am drooling
the juices carmelize in the baking dish and marry into
the potatoe skins…EEEEEEEEEEEEeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!LikeLike
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it’s like that on the little front yard cloth line too.
i was studying that this eve as i wateredLikeLike
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like when you identify the what is it??? genus of something????
i am of the thread/string family.
that is my catagory.LikeLike
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i guess where i was wanting to go with that is that it’s
ok for a cloth to just be about pleasure, or beauty.
no story always necessary, although, i guess it’s all
some kind of story…
like for me, the story of stringLikeLike
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i have not. but i know i want to, even might use the word
should. it’s tricky here. so HOT and you would have to
be precise with a harvest to be able to keep the seed
well. it might just occur sometimes as a fortuitous
accident…
this would be something i would have worked toward if
i were going to be
staying
here
which i seem to be
not
a small tear.LikeLike
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Nancy…i really like your thoughts here and i guess i am
maybe being too picky about the definition of story.
everything is story really.
i don’t think we have a different definition
it’s just wordsLikeLike
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shade not so good for a potatoe patch.
but everyone doesn’t need to grow everything.
think about shade things.
nettles for one. i can’t grow nettles.
nettle tea is THE elixir.LikeLike
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Yes, I would agree with that. Some things can be just about beauty, I’m just not sure that for me it ever is. 🙂 There is always a story, or will be a story.
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my mouth is watering and my eyes are gigling. are
you vegetarian? im not officially vege now tho i have been in the past.
We do eat a lot of veg tho, mostly home grown too in the right seasons.
kaiteM.
http://kaiteyarngarden.blogspot.comLikeLike
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