A fictional potato farm
Potatoes, from ridge to crate.
Forge Automatic Photo Check is a made-up potato farm. It exists to test automatic photography and website building, so nothing here is for sale and nobody visits.
What's actually known
This farm has one confirmed fact: it grows potatoes, on paper. Everything a buyer or visitor would normally need is listed here so you can see what has and hasn't been set.
How a potato crop comes together
Four stages most potato growers work through, from planting to lifting. This is general background on the crop. Timing changes with region, variety and weather, and this fictional farm has no harvest calendar of its own.
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Stage 1 of 4
Seed potatoes go into ridges
Growers usually plant seed tubers into ridged soil once the ground warms in spring. The ridge keeps the new crop covered as it grows.
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Stage 2 of 4
Leaves first, then flowers
Shoots push up through the ridge and the leaves close over the furrows. Many varieties flower around the time tubers begin to form below ground.
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Stage 3 of 4
Tubers fill out underground
Through summer the plant stores starch in tubers on its underground stems. Keeping them covered with soil stops light from turning the skins green.
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Stage 4 of 4
Lifted once the skins set
After the foliage dies back or is cut, growers often leave tubers in the ground for a couple of weeks so the skins firm up before lifting.
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