Cold and soggy weather deterred gardening for nearly a week. It’s warmer now and drying up, a good time to finish digging up a potato bed that was already mostly harvested.
About a third of the bed was left to dig. Harvesting was not difficult, I used a broadfork to loosen all the edges, and then down on my hands and knees with my CobraHead Original to do all the digging.
The potatoes had been planted in trenches, and the soil used to backfill the trenches was super soft, especially compared to the clay of the rest of the bed. The heavy rains also worked to my advantage. The bed had drained fairly well, it was damp but not wet, and that made moving the clayey soil between the two trenches that was not so soft, fairly easy, too.
The potatoes were clean and healthy with very little attached dirt. They are the last few Red Norland’s and the rest, the white potato, King Harry.
Today’s harvest yielded one five-gallon bucket, 26 pounds. I’m happy with the results.
THis year, my potatoes didn’t produce hardly any potatoes…just a few tiny ones. I did everything as I did other years. What could I have done wrong over the season? I bought seed potatoes…a yellow variety
Hi, I would suggest a search on the Internet for “plants produced no potatoes” See what comers up.