Special Delivery!

Well, even though it snowed again (after it was all almost completely melted) we're starting to gear up for planting time.  This morning our potato seed delivery arrived, and while I didn't get any pictures of the pallets being unloaded, I did grab my camera after they were all settled.

My brother was sort of unofficially named Pallet-Jack Handler for this job.  My dad used the tractor to bring the pallets from the delivery truck that was sitting on the road, and then Jonathan would bring them inside the building with the pallet-jack and line them up against the wall.

Dad cut all the plastic wrap away to allow the airflow to get to the potatoes.  If we left the plastic wrap on and it  started harbouring moisture, we could end up with a ton of rotten potatoes.

And there's our row of potato pallets.  Altogether there are 144 sacks, each 50lbs.  And there are four different kinds of potatoes... Satina (yellow), Norland (red), Alaska Bloom (white), and Colomba (yellow).  All now waiting to be planted in a few weeks, and I'll post about it when we begin planting!