Sunday, January 27, 2013

Potatoes and sweet potatoes harvest, 'tasai', and wild boars...

It snowed today... and for the first time this season, there was some accumulation...
Harvested our potatoes this afternoon...
They were killed by the frost... first time to experience this with potatoes...
Am very happy with the produce that tipped at 5 kilograms... 
These, from seeds weighing 1 kilogram... 
And for dinner, my suweeto haato made chicken curry with the potatoes..
Hmmm, super tasty...
Among the greens we have now, the 'ta-sai' is probably one of the most resistant to the cold weather...
And it tastes very good too...

Our sweet potatoes did not do that well this season...
Harvest was rather measly.... 
A notable development this season, however, is that, wild boars have finally 'discovered' our potager... 
Three days ago, they came for the third time... stepping all over our garden...
It is not a pretty scene... yet, there is nothing much for them to eat in our field...
One of their favorites is the sweet potatoes...
Luckily, there is space within a fenced area nearer to our house...
Anyway, made a blockade (with recycled wood) on their approach route...
Hope this blockade is sufficient to make them give up coming...