Pickin up the potato plants out of the field.

[Propane1]

Set the MF 12 with loader in the furrow and set it in creeper gear on idle. So the tractor would follow me. In the mean time I was gathering the plants and loading them into the bucket. I think a potato bug would crawl faster than the tractor was going. Dumped the plants on to a brush pile for burning in November. Dug a few potato’s today. Russets.
Dug out 75 lbs of kenebec potatoes yesterday. They are some tasty. Be growing them next year.

Noel

 

[Shorty]

And once again I am shown how a loader is extra useful.

 

[Cvans]

It amazes me how green some of your plants are yet. Your going to be digging potatoes with a snow suit on.

 

[chieffan]

That reminds me of when I was kid on the farm. Dad always prided himself to have the straightest corn rows around. One year they were 1/2 mile rows, Popcorn that went down and had a lot to pick up. JD "B", vise grips on the steering shaft clamped to the steering post pulling a wagon. Front wheels turned inside out for wider stance. Set it on a row and let it go. Walked both side and behind picking up pop corn. Hired school kids on saturdays.

 

[oldedeeres]

All I have left out are the Russets. They are ready, but it has been so wet out there I haven't been wanting to dig them. The way things look today, 1C and sleety rain, I'm running out of weather windows to hope for. Might have to put on some rain gear and get down on my knees and mud them out after all. Early in July I put in a random row of everything left over just to make a batch of Rainbow Baby Potatoes. Had forgotten about them until I got this far in this post, they'll be pretty, something to look forward to.