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Sweet potatoes

Gretchen will be selling these sweet potatoes at Valdosta Farm Days tomorrow morning, Saturday, 15 September 2012, 9AM to 1PM, at the historic Lowndes County Courthouse.

Digging

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Gretchen digging potatoes

You can’t dig just one. Here’s how Gretchen digs potatoes with a shovel:

Heavy, as in more than 40 pounds of potatoes:

Yes, that’s a bathroom scale; only thing we had for something that heavy.

She learned all this from Terry Davis. He and I planted those potatoes. Pictures and videos by John S. Quarterman, Lowndes County, Georgia, 5 May 2011.

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