{"id":3757,"date":"2014-09-21T17:50:51","date_gmt":"2014-09-21T17:50:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/homesteademporium.wordpress.com\/?p=3732"},"modified":"2014-09-21T17:50:51","modified_gmt":"2014-09-21T17:50:51","slug":"stretching-the-goods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/homesteademporium.com\/blog\/2014\/09\/21\/stretching-the-goods\/","title":{"rendered":"Stretching the goods!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last fall I purchased a tiller at a farm auction for the hefty sum of 5 whole dollars. This past spring I decided to take it for a tune up before it was time to plant the garden.<\/p>\n<p>I had been given the name and number of a gentleman that our friends recommended. So I gave him a call and brought the tiller over.<\/p>\n<p>While there, him and his wife chatted up a storm with me about everything under the sun from my SUV &amp; the best products to use to keep it running well, to farming, tractors, gardening to kittens, making buns, lard, and more. I love talking to farmers. There&#8217;s so much to learn from them!<\/p>\n<p>While we chatted about gardening, at one point the wife asked if I had ever had banana potatoes after I mentioned wanting to grow purple Russian potatoes this year. I told her I had never heard of them before!<\/p>\n<p>She quickly went into her home and brought out a handful of little yellow-ish potatoes for me. She said to cook them for dinner so our family could give them a try.<\/p>\n<p>I looked at the handful of potatoes, and told her we are a family of 7 and knowing how much my kids love potatoes and trying new foods, would it bother her if I planted her potatoes in my garden, instead of cooking them and having them fight over the small feast? That way we would have several meals of banana potatoes instead!<\/p>\n<p>She thought that was a great idea!<\/p>\n<p>When hubby planted all our potatoes, he planted her handful of banana potatoes. <\/p>\n<p>Yesterday we dug them all up!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/homesteademporium.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/09\/20140921-114542.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/homesteademporium.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/09\/20140921-114542.jpg\" alt=\"20140921-114542.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Her gift of potatoes, stretched into FIVE gallons! Talk about stretching the goods!<\/p>\n<p>Sometime this week we will cook up a dish of banana potatoes and finally taste them after patiently waiting for over 6 months. I&#8217;d say that return was well worth the wait!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last fall I purchased a tiller at a farm auction for the hefty sum of 5 whole dollars. This past spring I decided to take it for a tune up before it was time to plant the garden. I had been given the name and number of a gentleman that our friends recommended. So I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/homesteademporium.com\/blog\/2014\/09\/21\/stretching-the-goods\/\">Read more<i class=\"fa fa-arrow-right\"><\/i><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,5],"tags":[58,277,280,343,344,346,349,502],"class_list":["post-3757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gardening-and-nature","category-the-homestead","tag-banana-potatoes","tag-garden","tag-gardening","tag-homestead","tag-homestead-emporium","tag-homesteademporium","tag-homesteading","tag-potatoes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/homesteademporium.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/homesteademporium.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/homesteademporium.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homesteademporium.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homesteademporium.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/homesteademporium.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3757\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/homesteademporium.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homesteademporium.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homesteademporium.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}