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Re: potato torture

ROTFLAPMPASTC!!!

Steve  (Maritime...)


Ross E Stanford wrote:
> 
>      Well, I had my first potato related accident today.
> While I was slicing a potato, it bit me!   That's right, it bit me!
> Right on the finger.  No, it wasn't a slip of the knife,  honest.  Would
> I tell you a story that wasn't true?
>      Anyway, now I'm mad.  I'll teach those little tubers a thing or two.
>  (Don't forget who I am related to.)
>      I went out and put down a 4 ft by 8ft piece of weed stop landscape
> fabric, right outside of my garden.  I covered it with a thin layer of
> soil.  I then chopped up a bunch of rogue potatoes.  (I first removed
> their tiny little black leather jackets),   Boy, did that feel good, even
> though another one bit me!  I pretended to plant them on the soil.
> Potatoes are really stupid, but I had to put down the thin layer of soil
> first to fool them, remember, potatoes have eyes.
>      I then covered each of them with a little soil, just enough to fool
> them into thinking they were planted properly.  Then I covered the whole
> area with straw.  Boy, will they be surprised when they start to grow!
> That will fix them!
> And when they just start to get their leaves a few inches above the
> straw, I will bury them again with straw.
>      Well, I"m off now to finish the pyramids.
> 
>      Stan, the cheap and lazy gardener
> 
> P.S.  It is not politically incorrect to do this to potatoes.  Beef, yes,
> but not potatoes.  Even all of you have probably played with a Mr. Potato
> Head sometime in the past.  (Maybe not so far in the past for some of
> you)  If potatoes can put up with that humiliation, they can certainly
> put up with me.
> P.P.S.  How should I pretend to fertilize this setup?
> 
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