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  • Potato Garage

    Ordinary potatoes are photosensitive and turn green & bitter when exposed to light, so Mary stores them in a paper bag in the pantry. I recently re-found the cupcake / bread box previously used for battery storage and we decided it would make a great potato storage box:

    Potato Garage - installed
    Potato Garage – installed

    It does look like a little garage with a roll-up door, doesn’t it?

    The engraving on the top came from the New Garden Encyclopedia:

    Garden Encyclopedia - Potatoes - engraving scan
    Garden Encyclopedia – Potatoes – engraving scan

    The larger spud definitely has The Stink Eye! Also: tusks!

    Threshold the scanned image, edit out a few blemishes, and engrave it atop the box:

    Potato Garage - engraved
    Potato Garage – engraved

    The result looks rather pallid, but this is not the place for fancy wood finishes.

    The alert reader will note a purple sweet potato parked in there, but it’s close to the spirit of the thing.