On Tuesday night, I had a long list of tasks to get done outside. Cut the lawn. Re-stake my tomato cages. Then...time for pest removal/reduction. After I took care of a hornets nest I finally got busy tending to my garden. With the temperatures lower than they have been in the past 10 days, last night was a good night to catch up on some neglect. And I was greeted with some good news: A partial harvest came in last night from my New Potato plants. The plants are starting to die back, so I began digging. Here's what I turned up a nice amount of spuds. I'd say that this is likely going to be about 1/5th of the total harvest based on the area I dug up. About 10 potatoes that look like this of various sizes:
Some of them are really quite big, too. Here's one next to a champagne cork to demonstrate the size:
I know next year I'll be doing A LOT more potatoes earlier in the spring. I'll have to find some Fingerling seed potatoes on the web somewhere.


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