Planting Potatoes and Swiss Chard

We had a sunny weekend and help from family to plant five rows of potatoes.  We could not have accomplished as much without them.

Here's the seed drying.

Kamal wrestling with the walk-behind tractor to make rows and furrows.

Planting the seed.

Then, we cover them with dirt to hill them.  Once the greens shoot up and are six inches tall, we hill them again.

Last weekend, we planted a bed of chard.  I am using biodegradable mulch for early weed control. 

Placing the transplant into the hole.

Here I am pushing out the plant from the tray with a reused- plastic container full of organic fertilizer (not whey protein.)  I give the plants a boost of fertilizer when transplanting.