Last Harvest 2009

Potatoes, carrots and onions do fine underground right until the ground freezes. Potato vines had died off in September, but the onions and carrots still had greens. Time to dig them all up since the ground will freeze solid in a couple weeks.

Experimental potato growing here. I had some leftover kennebec potatoes sprouting last spring and figured might as well plant them somewhere. These two rocks are about 1.5 feet apart so I took some old landscaping timbers and made a raised bed. They grew really well, and didn't get effected by blight (So, try saving potato seed even though you are not supposed to)
Digging out the bed, yield about 25 lbs... from leftover potatoes!



Here are the carrots and onions while they were growing in July:


Same bed, under 6" of leaf mulch and 2" of snow:
About 20lbs of Bolero carrots and 5 lbs of very stinky onions. Bolero carrots are supposed to store well.... we'll see.
These are from the potato towers... definitely a disapointment. Maybe 10lbs per tower, not even close to the 100lbs advertised.


Little Miss 40 checking out the potatoes: