Potatoes

Today I let the girls pull up the potatoes.  I didn't want to be doing it so soon but the potato plants were showing signs of death.  So up the potatoes came. 

If you didn't know it, I planted originally four pieces of a potato that had sprouted in my kitchen.  They took off like crazy when I put the little plants outside in a pot.  I had to transplant them a few weeks later into our kiddie pool garden.  One plant died off pretty quickly due to the squirrels digging it up.  That left three plants.  Luckily potatoes really don't take more than a few months to develop some decent potatoes.  I would have left these in ground to get a bit bigger for at least another month if I could have gotten away with it.   

The kiddie pool gardens came about as a way to get around amending the horribly sandy soil.  It was cheaper and less risky to simply fill two kiddie pools with potting soil and top soil than it would have been to amend the in ground garden bed which is now a wild flower bed.  Wild flowers sure are pretty and TINY.

As you can see, poor plants are starting to die.  Maybe if the squirrels would stop digging at their roots.

Peeking through the dirt are some potatoes.  Damn squirrels.

Remi is in charge of pulling the spuds from the plants.

Perpetually naked Tate with a spud.

About two dinners worth of spuds.  Not bad for free and to think one potato created these.

Will definitely be planting potatoes again.  Super easy plant to grow if the squirrels would just stop digging in the garden.