hello quietyard. Yeah, potatoes are fun to grow. I was through the roof the first time I grew potatoes. My late husband was very pessimistic about them growing because I chose to grow them in containers. I was very into containers at the time because my yard had so much shade and many of my plants I rotated in and out of the sunny areas. I didn't have many sunny areas that were good companions for potatoes, so putting them in a huge container worked out quite well. Every day that the vines were still green and healthy made me happily anticipate digging the potatoes up.
After that, I had to try sweet potatoes. I also ordered them off the internet then as well. I had a wonderful garden center near my house at the time. But their sweet potatoes would arrive much too late for me so I had to find a place on the internet that delivered. Not sure now what that place was without looking through my old receipts. But I am grateful they made the ordering process and delivery easy enough for me to always remember that experience of success when my hand came out of the dirt with a nice sweet potato.
I've been visiting the daylily forums a lot. I have some ideas where I will plant some once I get them. I'm going to hope there are some left locally when the fall nears. That was always the best time to plant daylilies so I could be like a kid when they popped up in the spring and I would anxiously await the first bloom. The first bloom would usually open for me to see on my way out the door to work. I always turned around and went back into the house to tell my husband about it. I also grew many in containers along a path in my garden. As they got bigger and bigger, they'd get moved to a spot in the ground.
