Today I saw $7.99 eight-pound bags of potatoes at the store!
Holy mackerel, $1.00 a pound for plain old potatoes that weren’t that nice, to begin with. My heart just about stopped. My potatoes are doing wonderful, the plants being nearly up to my waist, but I thought I’d pick up a 10 pound bag so I could let mine get bigger. I’ve been digging around the plants a bit and am finding lots of fist sized ‘taters. I really wanted to let them get bigger, but NO WAY will I spend that much for potatoes!
I about cringe every time I go to the store, as the prices just keep going up and up and up. Cheese that used to be $3 a pound is now $4.99, flour that used to be .99 a 5 pound bag is now $2.99. Meat? Oh yeah, some was in the $10.99 range a POUND. Now where’s that deer?
It always use to be that boring and sensible people would tell you not to bother growing potatoes in a home garden because they did not give a good enough return. The advice was always to concentrate on greens and other leafy vegetables because they cost more at the store. But if potatoes start averaging a dollar a pound it would not be that hard to make a home potato plot pay for itself. The problem is coming up with a place to store the potatoes.