Am I Smarter Than a Potato?

Les Becker

Jun 17, 2021·9 min read

(This essay was originally published in the now-incredibly-broken-beyond-repair “Late-Bloomer Blog”, in 2014.)

Cartoon of three potatoes — 2 children and their mom — one kid has poked the other with a stick and Momma says, “It’s all fun and games until somebody loses an eye.” — **“It’s all fun and games until somebody loses an eye.”**

My big project for 2014 (aside from becoming “Independently Self-Sufficient”, that is) was to be able to feed the household without having to purchase any vegetable I could grow myself.

Actually, the garden was a major part of the “Independently Self-Sufficient” plan — I just knew…