Potato Harvest

"Yukon Gold" variety (with a few onions thrown in)

Another unforseen effect of going on vacation: we returned to our potato plants brown and crispy. No hope of redemption. So I decided to dig up whatever potatoes we had before they rotted in the ground. Look what I found!

Potato harvesting is fun! It's like a treasure hunt: sticking your spade into the soil, not knowing what you will bring up. Jacob helped me put each one in the basket, saying "Tato, tato."

I planted 6 squares of potatoes this year, with 4-5 pieces of the seed potatoes per square. This is the harvest from 5 of the 6 squares. I'm so pleased! I'm sure we would have gotten more of the big size if they had been able to grow until frost. As it is, so far we have enjoyed our new potatoes mashed, and in soup.

I've got one more potato plant that seems to be hanging in there, so I decided to try and keep it going for awhile longer.