Friday - July 16

The heat was unbelievable today and we spent a large part of our day pulling potatoes. Potatoes can be removed from the ground two ways, by hand or machine. At this point the potatoes are considered to be “B” sized so they are best removed by hand. This is done when there are two person teams with one person using a fork to lift the ground and another simultaneously pulling on the plant. The art in potato pulling includes knowing how far away to place to fork. You must have it close enough to lift the potatoes out of the ground, but not close enough to put the fork into a potato. When this is done correctly, the potatoes can be lifted from the ground and easily collected. After four hours of work, two potato-pulling teams were able to get 391 lbs of potatoes!