Planting Potatoes
When I was a boy we had several gardens around our old house. The largest one of all was used just for growing potatoes.
I can still remember those potato planting days. All the family___31___helped. After my Dad had___32___the soil, my Mom, brothers, and I went to work. It was my___33___to drop the little seed potatoes in the___34___while my Mom dropped handfuls of fertilizer beside them. My brothers then covered them all with the___35___turned earth.
For months___36___I would glance over at the garden while I played outside and wonder what was going on underneath the___37___ . When the harvest time came I was amazed at the huge size of the potatoes my Dad___38___out of the soil. Those little seed potatoes had grown into big potatoes. They would be turned into meal after meal of ___39___food. They would keep the___40___family well fed throughout the whole year. It truly was a miracle.