Comments for A Healthy Gardener

Comment on Blue Potatoes-Potatoes Should Not Make You Blue by Holly

Holly — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 15:10:08 +0000

It makes so much sense that potatoes leach toxins out of the soil, since that’s where they live their lives! I too am venturing into potato growing this season for the first time. I’m excited to check out that article you linked to, thanks! I’m planning a “red, white, and blue” potato bed – Yukon Gold, All Blue, and Colorado Rose. Fingers crossed!

Comment on Blue Potatoes-Potatoes Should Not Make You Blue by kate

kate — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 19:06:15 +0000

Hi, Gloria;
And here’s another one… peaches. It tops the list of fruits to be wary of (particular for your kids) because chemical sprays are so prevalent. I love peaches but it’s hard to even find local growers who behave themselves and abstain from so many pesticides.

Love this idea of the 2 foot tater garden! You can generally find Fingerlings growing in a big bucket on my sunny deck.

Comment on Blue Potatoes-Potatoes Should Not Make You Blue by Catherine

Catherine — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 17:46:32 +0000

They look so pretty. My girls would love to try growing blue potatoes, we’ll have to look for them. Home grown potatoes really do taste better than store bought ones in my opinion.

Comment on Blue Potatoes-Potatoes Should Not Make You Blue by Gloria Bonde

Gloria Bonde — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 00:46:43 +0000

Carol, what you say is so true. I also use green products for cleaning and doing laundry.

Comment on Blue Potatoes-Potatoes Should Not Make You Blue by Carol Flower Hill

Carol Flower Hill — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 00:31:28 +0000

Gloria this is such an important post! There are so many poisons in our environment … in our food and waterways… on the land. Here is where each of us can help make change happen. Demand organic and grow your own. Seeds too should be organic. Ask about organic when we shop… and even go out to dinner… the more questions asked the more change will come. I love blue and purple potatoes … I roast them with a bit of olive oil and rosemary… easy and very healthy! ;>)

Comment on Blue Potatoes-Potatoes Should Not Make You Blue by Gloria Bonde

Gloria Bonde — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 21:55:31 +0000

Meredith, maybe the batch or kinds of potatoes you bought weren’t sprayed with the fungicide – wouldn’t that be great! Did you check out that link on growing them in a 4 ft square foot area? My veggies and flowers grow intermingled. I rarely have a pest problem. I think the variety of scents probably fools them.

Comment on Blue Potatoes-Potatoes Should Not Make You Blue by Gloria Bonde

Gloria Bonde — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 21:52:30 +0000

Sunny, You probably have very yummy versions of potatoes. But these blue ones are fun!

Comment on Blue Potatoes-Potatoes Should Not Make You Blue by Gloria Bonde

Gloria Bonde — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 21:51:35 +0000

Dear Edith – the things they do to potatoes is alarming! I think every bit of food we can eat organically is a plus. In a small town sometimes it is hard to find organic, especially out of season. Gloria

Comment on Blue Potatoes-Potatoes Should Not Make You Blue by debsgarden

debsgarden — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 18:27:00 +0000

I have not eaten blue potatoes, but I love the gold, as well as red-skinned, ones. I have never grown potatoes, but you make me want to give them a try! I am sure they will taste better and be more nutritious.

Comment on Blue Potatoes-Potatoes Should Not Make You Blue by Meredith

Meredith — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 17:57:51 +0000

I’ve never tried blue potatoes. I’ll probably be sticking with just the classic Red Pontiac for space reasons this year, but you’ve given me the desire to try some blue ones once. I also had no idea potatoes were so dangerously coated in chemicals… we do try to buy organic when we can find them at local markets, but it’s not exactly an easy find out here in the boonies lately, during the off season.

Weirdly enough, grocery store spuds sprout for me all the time. What am I doing differently, I wonder? I definitely don’t water them, but we’ve noticed our kitchen stays fairly humid naturally. Other than that, I have no clue! (I’d never plant them, though. My grandfather said to only try that if we were starving and couldn’t afford seed potatoes, as they usually are suspect for disease, and once it’s in your soil, it may never leave.)

Comment on Blue Potatoes-Potatoes Should Not Make You Blue by melanie

melanie — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 16:22:38 +0000

After reading your post I’m really glad I grow my own potatoes. I have a different variety of blue ones they have pure white flesh.

Comment on Blue Potatoes-Potatoes Should Not Make You Blue by Sunny

Sunny — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 14:37:19 +0000

How interesting, you would think, coming from Ireland, a country of potato eaters I would have had these before.

Comment on Blue Potatoes-Potatoes Should Not Make You Blue by Edith Hope

Edith Hope — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 09:51:33 +0000

Dear Gloria, Your potatoes, and the way in which you served them, sound absolutely delicious, particularly with the scrambled eggs.

But, oh dear, I am very alarmed having read of your ‘experiment’ of trying to get a shop bought potato to sprout. It is indeed most worrying to know how and in what way potatoes, and doubtless other foodstuffs, are treated. How nice that you are going to be growing more of your own vegetables. I am sure that you will have fun doing so, and certainly eating them. I shall look forward to hearing more about your kitchen garden.

Comment on Blue Potatoes-Potatoes Should Not Make You Blue by Gloria Bonde

Gloria Bonde — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 04:37:08 +0000

Thank you Stevie, Jodi, Nancy and Randy. I’ve recently been buying my potatoes from the co op which is in Rapid City, 60 miles from our small town. This will be the first time I grow potatoes. I’ve always been limited by the space. But that 2×2ft frame sounds like fun!

Comment on Blue Potatoes-Potatoes Should Not Make You Blue by Randy

Randy — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 04:02:48 +0000

Gloria,
We always get our potatoes organic from either the food co op or the local farmers market. The colored fingerlings cost around $2 a lb and they usually have 4-5 different kinds to choose from at the farmers market, yummy!

Comment on Blue Potatoes-Potatoes Should Not Make You Blue by Nancy Bond

Nancy Bond — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 03:45:32 +0000

Yukon Golds are among my favourite “all purpose” potatoes. I’ve neither grown nor eaten blue potatoes, but you’ve surely piqued my interest.

Comment on Blue Potatoes-Potatoes Should Not Make You Blue by jodi (bloomingwriter

jodi (bloomingwriter — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 03:38:10 +0000

Love blue potatoes–they were the first thing I ever planted, while ‘helping’ my grandfather who lived on the south shore of Nova SCotia. The variety we grew then (and some still do now) was called Tancook Blue for Big Tancook Island and they were incredibly blue inside and out. Still love them.

Comment on The Beginning: The Front Garden by Stevie

Stevie — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 02:10:28 +0000

I’m going to have to put up for before and after shots of my gardens now that I’m so inspired- yours are such a treat to see! Thanks!

Comment on The Very Start of The Garden by Stevie

Stevie — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 02:08:54 +0000

It’s so lovely and what a darling house you have!

Comment on Blue Potatoes-Potatoes Should Not Make You Blue by Stevie

Stevie — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 02:07:42 +0000

I grew blue potatoes last year at my community garden plot – totally organic and totally delish! I find that these are showstoppers on the plate and taste really good when lightly pan fried with some good olive oil. But when boiled or baked they can get too fluffy and a bit dry for my liking. But fun to grow nonetheless.