Hello, hivers and garden lovers!
As my followers know, I grow potatoes at the local community garden. The reason why I prefer to grow potatoes there rather than in my home garden is because the soil at the community garden is sandy and loose, which is good for potatoes. Potatoes don't do as well in dense soil.
About a month ago, I wrote a post about starting the potato harvest. Because of days of bad weather, and my bad back, it has taken me a month to dig all 15 rows of potatoes. Today, I had 4 rows left to dig. I was just going to dig 2 rows, but my back seemed to be doing ok, so I dug all 4 remaining rows. I had 3 rows of Yukon Gold potatoes left, and 1 row of Adirondack Blue potatoes. I was pleasantly surprised by how nice the potatoes were in these last 4 rows. This year's harvest was quite satisfying.
A week ago, I still had 7 rows to harvest, I dug 3 rows that day. I also started hauling shredded leaves up to my garden plots to mulch them for next year.
Here's a look at the garden plot in the late afternoon sun.
These are the rows that had not been dug yet. Lots of weeds to remove also.
This was the day's harvest from 2 of the 3 rows. It was too dark to get a good picture by the time I got the third row dug. My camera does not do well with low light unless I use a tripod.
In between digging rows, I also hauled some of the shredded leaves to the garden from the trailer. I carry the shredded leaves in 18 gallon plastic totes.
That was all I got done that day. I hauled more shredded leaves to the garden in the middle of the week, but I didn't bring my camera with me that day.
Today, I got an earlier start than usual, so I had more time to get the work done before running out of daylight. Here's a look at the garden when I got there today. Just 4 more rows to dig. You can see that I have most of the rest of the plot covered with shredded leaves.
This is the harvest from the first 2 rows I dug, plus a tote full of weeds that I pulled out.
2 rows were enough to fill a 5 gallon bucket, lots of nice sized Yukon Golds.
This was the result of digging the last 2 rows. The dark potatoes are Adirondack Blue.
After finishing the digging and collecting all the potatoes, I smoothed out the dirt with a rake and then covered the rest of the garden plot with more shredded leaves. Now I can finally say that all the potatoes are harvested, and the garden is ready for winter.
I still have some clean up work left to do in my other garden plot, but I'm not too worried about that, as long as I get it done before the ground freezes.
That's all I have for this post, I hope you found it interesting!
