Harvesting ? all hell broke loose

"Honey we are going to do harvesting in the farm - sweet potato ". - me

"Which one? your frail thin roots.  so soon ?"   my wife was instant in jumping on me.

Me running..

"Ah ! how can you say that it is frail, you have not even heard me full.   The time has matured, we have no more water". - me

"I dont care, dont talk to me anymore about your farm. It is your farm. You harvest, you dont harvest. How is it going to affect me?.

You brought the land on YOUR name a few years back when I was busy with something else. You cheated me saying that you are travelling for doing one land registration but you did many.... blah ... blah......"

My son and daughter who are now grown up were watching both of us. Or rather they were busy watching TV.  It is a break for them.  This is a routine and they now know something about how NOT to react.  Atleast they know that this noise will end by 8.30 pm when we will have dinner togather.

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Finally the day has arrived, the day of First Harvest

Subbu has decided we dig the sweet potato out and sell. The last watering was done last week. It is more or less ready and we cannot waste more water on it.  The issue is we have to generously pour water which gets absorbed in trenches before even it reaches the far end.  The land is asking for better method of watering - perhaps drip irrigation.  But that is later.

Now having decided, let's get into action.  Today the potato wines are to be cleared and put into the new empty compost tank that is waiting.  (Well this is the first feed for even that, a sort of inauguration and demonstration of farm waste recycling).  Tomorrow the sweet potato will be dug using tracktor. He said manual labour is costly. I still insisted him to call few labo]ur where possible and rest get done with tractor.

After harvest, the sweet potato need not be washed. Just dust off and fill in the sack. It will be taken to Tirunelveli Market this time. want to observe what rate we get and how this whole thing works.

I am still not ready to hunt for Organic buyers. I need to work on my contacts, website and so on before promising someone of continuous supply.  

Presently the work on hand.........