Potatoes all in

This afternoon after school Stuey and I dug up the last of the potatoes.  I had intended to do this a few weeks ago, but life events got in the way.  Stuey really got into finding the potatoes under the plants and it brought me flashbacks of doing the same with my mother when I was a kid.  There is just something about finding potatoes in the dirt, or even eggs under the chickens.  It is just satisfying.

The potatoes seem HUGE this year, and I was happy to see that in the last few weeks the slugs have not been as active as they were earlier in the summer.  In early September they were eating all the potatoes and that is why I had been in such a hurry to get them all harvested.  It seems I need not have worried.

The last couple of years I have been storing my potatoes in cotton game bags in the cool shed.  The game bags breath and yet don't the potatoes turn green from light exposure.  Seems to work well. This year I have 4 game bags full of potatoes!  Patrick