I spent most of Sunday digging up 7/8 ths of my South potato garden.
It rained hard the day before and even harder a few days before that but the vines were dead and if I waited they would disappear and I would be guessing where there were.
Ground was very wet; as I dug them out often it was just large clumps so I broke them by hand and searched for potatoes.
I did half the digging literally by hand as it was surprisingly easy to dig at the bottom of the hole searching for taters.
A few times I just saw the tops so I took the shovel dug another 8 inches down often popping out a large cluster of potatoes.
These were mostly carry overs from last year and there were no truly large potatoes mostly varying from baseball to ping-pong ball size with a number of marbles.
I got about a bushel,with the most common being a purple from last year.
The ones left still had large green vines.
I am assuming that the carry overs were mostly early potatoes as this is the earliest I have ever dug up this many in August.
Normally I rarely dig any before Sept.
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North garden which was put in over a week before the South, some were still blooming ten days ago and they are, at least the vines looking very, very good.
A month ago I was worried as they looked OK but since they have exploded in size.
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Had one cob of sweet corn down South, it was an oddball or some I planted I thought were DOA sprouted as I have some plants , quite a few growing where six weeks ago there were none.
I know it is different as its, and few others that are not supposed to be there, stalk had red tinge to the leaves
and the majority do not.
Ate it raw and it was good.
Wind broke off all but one of my volunteer sunflowers; I propped two up on broom sticks, tied one to a long iron rod and trashed one.
