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WOW OH WOW! Look at the size of those potatoes!! And you used your smallest potatoes, as seed potatoes this year. Normally I used my best garlic for planting and I give away or use the smaller garlic. Actually the smaller garlic are nothing to sneeze about, since the quality has increased from prior years to now.

I saved your post to use in my planning and planting potatoes next year. I will try to save my best potatoes and store them as you did for next year's planting.

Mt current potatoes only began blossoming last week. It had been cold and rainy for a long time and just yesterday it jumped to 95*F and then 98*F today. A front will moved in tomorrow and cool things down.

Here is my potato box. Not sure what's in there until I harvest.



Your property and excel's property are so big. I will just do the best with my smaller property, but once I passed age 70, I gave up on moving to perhaps a farm or larger property. Rather, my goal now is to get others interested in gardening and I have found success, since I gave six parties over 100 tomato and pepper seedlings since last week. Three of these parties will be expanding their gardens to include separate beds for hard-neck garlic, which I will supply.


MORE TOMATO SEEDLING GIFTS

There seems to be many places with increased ticks this year. Here is a picture of a tick guard recommended by a local farmer. He bought them on Amazon:


"I'm working in the yard all of the time so these tick guards are great. I've had a problem with little bites on my ankles and shins and the itch was something awful. From reading up on Ticks, they may be the first life cycle of Ticks called Seed Ticks, they're only as big as a pin head. Since wearing these not one bite & I have been bitten this Spring before getting the the tick guards."

Derrick, I noticed that your garden picture is like a jungle compared to mine and I'm still paranoid about ticks in my city garden. Just passing on this information to you and others.

Due to sickness and bad weather, I'm a month behind in my gardening, but what I've done is credible for me. Also, a friend who was going to help me moved a fence and build new raised beds injured his knee. I will be planning way ahead for these changes for 2018. My friends and I have to plan to stay healthy.

Thanks,

Eddie