POTATOE PICTURES (how we plant potatoes)

So, the first step to planting potatoes is that you have ot cut them up. These potatoes come from boxes of specially grown potatoes for planting. We weigh the potatoe and then determine how many peices we should cut it into, making sure there is an eye on each peice. (eye in Japanese is Meyo- an easy one to remember)

I am sitting with two of the girls from Tiawan. Gizen is next to me and you can see the back of Alice's head. 

These pictures are taken by Kamitakesan, he takes pictures of everything!

So, I'm getting little sick of smiling or the camera.

Then we soak the potatoes in some water with fungus liquid in it. And then we roal it or sprinkle it in ash.

Then we go and plant them in feilds that we prepared the week or a few days before. We had to spread the manure all over the feild, and plow it with the tractor and then dig the trenches for the potatoes.

Then we planted the potatoes.

Then we have to sprinle more ash on them and then move the dirt back on them.

This is what it looks like finished.

Then we cover it with tarps.