8-15 FB Potato Middles 1
Potatoes closing middles is complete. That statement has great meaning to the good folks in Idaho who are responsible for putting, in my mind, one of the greatest vegetables on earth on our plates. But if you are Joe Sixpack and you were to read that statement, you might scratch your thinning head of hair and say “What?” I’m DS and hopefully I can explain next.
Inside talk is always interesting. For example, 20 years ago computer scientists were talking about downloading this, uploading that, and mumbling about gigabytes. Who amongst us in the everyday were old knew what in the dickens they were talking about? Same thing applies here. Other than potato producers, who knows what closing middles is. I turned to NASS spokesperson Vince Matthews: “ It’s a term that the potato farmers use which means the plants are grown in rows and as the plants develop, not only do they grow straight up, but they branch out and the plants get bigger. What that refers to is that they have reached a stage where they have grown across the middles or the furrows that are between the rows and have started to fill that in completely.”
