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Potato planting on PEI usually runs from April to May. Ellen\u2019s Diary from June 20, 1949 talks about set-cutting, a process in which potatoes are cut into smaller pieces to be planted. It also refers to a change in variety of potato that year. Nowadays on PEI, the most common varieties of potato grown are russets, whites and reds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cWe commenced the set-cutting this morning, while a June wind blew about the eaves and tossed the branches of the old white birch playfully and carried to us in the garage the sunshine and bird-song and fragrance with which this day has been replete. This building was the scene of our work, which our husbands term \u2018only a pleasant pastime- especially if one has time on her hands!\u2019 There the farmers had carried the potatoes intended for our seed, untreated this year, a strange feature at Alderlea but having been first subjected to long spells out of doors in the sunlight.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

We are using new seed, having discarded those of a pioneer strain we had grown with marked success and continuously for close to a quarter of a century. From a doorway James remarked sceptically: \u2018We\u2019ll see if these will be as good!\u2019 as our sharp knives bit into these- also of \u2018the four hundred.\u2019 \u2018Make good sets now\u2019 he reminded us, and Jeanie and I laughed over his apparent lack of confidence in our ability after our years spent apprenticed to him.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ellen\u2019s Diary, June 20, 1949<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cCultivating Potatoes on Lewis Farm. Earl Blanchard on tractor George Lewis on Cultivator at Freetown area of Prince Edward Island\u201d from Earle\u2019s Picture Restoration Prince Edward Island. <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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