This weekend we started the task of the last harvest. Things are starting to turn brown and since the frost hit, our basil, tomatoes and peppers have not been happy. We decided to go gather up as much of the bounty as we could wrangle together. We started to turn under the garden and we need to do the same to the greenhouse and move the chickens in, but that we might save for another warmer day. Here is a fun video I made of our harvest, greenhouse and garden. I just started playing with Youtube’s video editor so it was kind of fun to do. I hope you like it:
Here’s some of the bounty all washed
Look how purple this potato is…and iridescent!
Today we made egg and potato breakfast burritos with this and since it’s chili out, I’ll use some of these ingredients to make some chili to stay in too!
Purple potato? I never seen one before. What type of potato is that?
Hey Cris, I don’t know what the name is, but we just call it a purple potato. Unlike red potatoes, even the inside of the potato is purple, but you eat it just like any other potato (mashed, baked, fried etc).
I found this link about the different potatoes and it says the purple potatoes are a Peruvian variety…
There are all sorts of weird varieties of fruits and veggies out there, but we only get less than 1% at the store. There are even purple/black carrot seed you can buy and grow! I think we found a couple of purple potatoes at a health food store and we decided to use them as a seed and have had purple potatoes now for about 3 years! Gardening is so cool for that reason.
I think that is pretty cool! Hey if it tastes good and look purple thats a plus.. lol
Have you ever had yuatia lila in puerto rico? It is a lilac but I never seen that dark purple 🙂