Are these potato plants?
Day 79
I’m in potato country
June 13th, 2010
I'm walking across America.
That's the idea, at least. I'm walking westward from New York City for nine months or so. If everything goes according to plan, I'll be in Oregon when the clock runs out. If nothing goes according to plan, maybe I'll end up in Peru or Mongolia or Pennsylvania. You can read all about the details of my trip if you're so inclined.
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Here's my progress so far:
It’s too far away to be able to tell.
That’s corn. It appears to have been planted with a six-row planter. First, twelve rows around the outside, and then straight rows for the remainder.
I love the formation of the way the rows were planted.
Matt, you’re getting close to sugar beet country. My grandparents were sugar beet farmers in Richland County (the far SE county in North Dakota). The Red River Valley (MN/ND border) will be some of the flattest land on your trip. You might look back fondly at this after a few weeks pushing your cart up and down the mountains out west!
I think potatoes generally require a hillier row, if that makes any sense. Soybeans?
I gots too…
One potatoe, two potatoe, three potatoe…four.
I vote corn. Potatoes need hillss. Corn in Joisy and PA are planted just like the above.
though it is kind of far from the camera
Given the region, it’s probably sugar beets or soybeans. It isn’t likely to be corn – it isn’t tall enough. Corn around these parts should be “knee-high by the fourth of July” and that field doesn’t look even close.
I’ve never seen such pretty dirt.
I’ve always had relatives living in the “Red River Valley of the North.” It’s a good place, because good people live there.
There’s another man, named “Greene,” (Alvin Greene) who has gotten into the news. He got 60% of the vote, in the Democratic primary, for US Senate, in South Carolina. Because he didn’t have any money, he couldn’t afford the more obnoxious things that politicians use, such as radio and television ads, Spam emails and junk calls from robots.
Maybe the voters down there got so fed up with that phony stuff, that they decided to vote for someone who didn’t use it.
Alvin Greene may be related, through slavery, to Nathanael Greene, who freed central South Carolina from the British.
The biased news media jump on the “felony,” with which he was charged. Actually, it should have been a misdemeanor, and would have been, except for racist bias toward him. Wikipedia also says he has an honorable discharge from the military.
You’d be surprised at how fast the corn will grow. It may not be quite ‘knee-high by the 4th of July’ that far north, but it could be close. But it is hard to tell from this distance.
I would say sugar beets. You are definitely in that area.
Soybeans.
The plants seem too close together to be potatoes. My vote is beans (soy) or corn.
I think that aliens have landed. Lets check with Mel Gibson, he will know.
It doesn’t look like corn to me (from viewing the original size in flickr). I’ve seen a lot of corn growing here in the South.
It is not corn. Think about it corn doesn’t come up with leaves like these plants have. Corn comes up with normaly 2 leaves almost shooting strait up.