I headed out this evening, intending to harvest all the potatoes in the old kitchen garden.

Instead, I ended up watering things. The peppers and luffa in the wattle weave bed were all drooping. The ground was so wet this morning, I thought it rained during the night, but it turns out it was just dew! Everything was bone dry by the end of the day.

By the time I got to the potatoes, I had time to just do the Irish Cobblers before losing light.

This is our entire Irish Cobbler harvest.

We did harvest some earlier, for our own use and for my mother. I still hoped for a higher yield, but at least we harvested more than we planted, this year!

For now, the box of them are on the picnic table under the old market tent. We are no longer getting predictions for rain tomorrow morning, but might get some by noon, the day after. Tomorrow, I’ll bring out a couple of the screens we have and lay the larger, undamaged potatoes out to cure for a while. The rest will go inside for us to eat right away.

I should be able to harvest the Red Thumb fingerling potatoes tomorrow, too. The Purple Peruvian potatoes in the grow bags still aren’t even dying back yet, so it’ll be a while for those.

Between the three varieties, we should have a decent amount of potatoes to store. It’s nowhere near enough to last us the winter, which is the ultimate goal, but we don’t have the prepared space to grow that many potatoes, yet.

It isn’t much, but I’m happy with them!

The Re-Farmer