Wow. Our potatoes are going a little bit crazy. We’re just back from a week away when, obviously, we couldn’t touch the garden. Nature did its own gardening in our absence. Warm days and a fair dose of rain has done wonders for the garden.
The lawn is a jungle, the raspberry bushes are encroaching on the patio and the first of our strawberries are starting to turn red. Most impressive of all, though, are the potato plants. They were just little shooting leaves poking up through the plot when we left but now several are a foot tall and show no sign of slowing down.
We’re going to have to get ourselves some topsoil this weekend to top them up or else the first actual potatoes will start showing above the ground, and you don’t want that. If they see the light they start to go green and then you can’t eat them.
It looks like we’re in for a good crop this year, which is a relief. I had doubts about giving over most of the plot to just one crop but it looks like it may have paid off.
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Looking good! I am growing potatoes for the first time this year in our back yard, and quite frankly I’ve been amazed with how quickly they grow and how lush the plants are.