Potatoes and the vines they come from
Yesterday, I dug up my purple potatoes – actually, they are blue inside, but I love alliteration. This is the third year in a row that they have come back on their own. I purchased the original seed potatoes from Landreth Seed Company 4 years ago and I always seem to leave some in the ground when I harvest them (I just never find them all). They survived the frozen ground here in New York and have volunteered for 3 years now. Quite the harvest for having done nothing other than recognize the plants when they first break ground in the spring.
Potatoes are delicious and nutritious, in fact, the average size spud contains
- 45% of the daily value for vitamin C
- 620 mg of potassium, comparable to bananas, spinach and broccoli
- trace amounts of thiamin, folate, magnesium, phosphorus, iron and zinc
- only 110 calories and no fat.
Potato Innards (courtesy of the garden fork)