Hello, hivers and garden lovers!
I finally started digging up the rows of potatoes in my garden plots at the local community garden. I planted 15 rows of potatoes last spring, each row being about 10 feet long, or about 3 meters. I had planted 5 rows of Adirondack Blue potatoes, 5 rows of early red potatoes, and 5 rows of Yukon Gold potatoes. I started digging at the end of the plot with the blue potatoes, simply because it was at one end of the plot.
This is my plot with the potatoes. This is actually a combined double plot, so it's about 45 feet long by 14 feet wide.
This picture is from the other end of the plot.
This is where I started digging.
I dug up the first row of the blue potatoes. I ended up getting a few nice big potatoes, a lot of medium sized ones, and a fair amount of small and really small potatoes. It was a decent harvest for a 10 foot row.
After digging up that row, I decided to dig up a row of red potatoes to see what kind of yield I would get from them. The amount of potatoes was pretty good, but I only got a few of what I would call big potatoes. Most of them were either medium size or small. Still, they're quite edible.
I started the digging on Sept 29, I only dug 2 rows that day. My back doesn't like digging potatoes, one of the challenges of getting older.
I went back to the plots yesterday and dug up another 3 rows. So now, I have 3 rows of blue potatoes dug, and 2 rows of reds dug. The Yukon Golds were planted on the other end of the garden, so I'll probably get to them last. It doesn't really matter which rows I dig up first or last, as long as I get them all dug before it gets cold. Because the ground is dry on the surface right now, there's not much dirt to wipe from the potatoes, which helps with preparing them for storage for the winter. I'll talk about preparing the potatoes for storage, and how I store them in another post. I need to get some pictures first. 😊
That's all I have for this post, I hope you found it interesting!
