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Well, the digging part...we dug up the potato bed today. We had three kinds: Reds, Yukon Gold and Kennebeck (white). The Kennebecks did the best followed by the Yukon Gold and lastly the reds.
I think next year we will stick with the Yukon Gold and Kennebeck.
We also had a fair crop of garlic, beans (pole, green and yellow wax), lettuce and onions this year.
Some of the garlic is in the basement in the dehydrator. You should smell it!! Yummm.
The tomatoes did not well this year. It seems as though a major supplier to the big box stores shipped plants with the blight which cause the leaves to basically rot off. The blight can also affect potatos, and is the same blight that caused the Irish potato famine many years ago.
Fortunately, the blight did not spread to our potato crop, but others did lose their entire crop.
As we finished digging we could hear a turkey clucking in the woods behind the house and the Chick-a-dees have started to return from wherever it is they spend the hotter days of summer.
Bear hunting season started on 01 Sept. Run, Bobby (Bruin), run!!
Karen
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