Here is this years potato harvest. The harvest was a little dismal. I didn't plant a lot of them and what was planted had a rather low yield. The ones I planted in my half-barrel did the best by far.
This weeks main garden task will be to plant the garlic. It is rather late to plant garlic but in the past I have had good results from late plantings. I also have to get my season extenders in the garden. I cleaned them all up last weekend. There is not much point in planting them at this time but I should be able to get something growing in them by late February.
At the moment all that is growing in the garden is broccoli. I'll have to check what is worth harvesting this week.
Happy Gardening Everyone!
You have a nice variety of colors even if the yield wasn't what you hoped.
ReplyDeleteHey there stranger...nice to see a post from you! Those are some pretty potatoes!
ReplyDeleteThey're pretty even if sparse. I hoe your garlic does really well.
ReplyDeletemmmm yummy potatoes! Have you tested your soil? potatoes do need fair amounts of potash. Also they say that they actually use up a fair amount of nitrogen, not that you'd want to add too much and have them run all to leaves, of course....
ReplyDeleteColorful basket of potatoes, quite a variety.
ReplyDeleteWhat the potato harvest lacks in quantity it sure makes up for with the lovely variety of colors. I have had good luck with late garlic plantings too but usually am aching to plant something around mid October and have to make myself not rush them out while the soil is too warm.
ReplyDeleteVery colorful indeed! Have you heard of, or tried, potato boxes? They sound like a wonderful idea and it's something I'll be trying myself this spring.
ReplyDeleteIt's a shame about the potatoes but you had lots of other lovely things to make up for it!
ReplyDeleteYour potato harvest is very colorful.
ReplyDeleteThe potatoes are pretty, sorry that they weren't prolific as well. I'm about ready to give up on growing potatoes, I just can't seem to get the hang of it, and they aren't one of my favorite foods anyway. I am grieving the lack of garlic in my garden for next year, the rust was so bad year that I just can't see going through that mess again. Hope your garlic harvest next year is great.
ReplyDeleteEven tho I small crop bet they taste good.
ReplyDeleteThat's a lot more potatoes than what I got from my three half- barrels! Mine looked like marbles! So, Congrats!
ReplyDeleteThanks for the reminder! I still have some purple skinned Caribe potatoes in the garden! Our weather has been so mild, that I just haven't dug them all yet. Must do so today, as I'm sure this mild streak can't last too much longer.. :)
ReplyDeleteYour potatoes look so pretty! Sorry you didn't get more of them.
ReplyDeleteLynn
I planted my first ever potato starters last spring and was thrilled when they produced! But I did it blindly and have really no idea what I should expect out of a starter. Anybody have guidelines?
ReplyDeleteGood looking taters there. Looking forward to planting my own next season.
ReplyDeleteHi Dan! see if you can find a photo to send for my Christmas veggie blog. There must be something edible out there in the Candadian tundra?
ReplyDeleteHa, that looks like our harvest. We didn't get very many but we had the wettest summer in 2011. Our poor garden sat under water most of the summer.
ReplyDeleteWe still had great fun gardening. If we didn't garden we wouldn't have any of those tasty potatoes.
Really looking forward to 2012 gardening. Will spend the winter planning.
Nice looking harvest for this time of year. We pulled our broccoli just a couple weeks ago. I look forward to reading more about your garden and beer.
ReplyDeleteHow did your garlic turn out? I never thought of adding garlic to my garden.
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