Our potato plots were overgrown with grass, following a very wet summer until mid-July this year. So we harvested them early, around July 20, for fear of rotting.
(The barrel in the middle hides an old well).
It was used on all the potatoes we ate for decades, and was in fact carcinogenic, among other things.
The withdrawal of this product has created major problems for storage, and industrial agriculture has had to find other solutions to prevent potatoes from sprouting.
There’s a lot of mint growing in a nearby field.
There are enough to get us through to next summer, but it all depends on whether they start sprouting at the end of winter or not. We’ll see how long they last, and whether they’re scented with mint or charcoal.
