Taterhead Update

Do you remember when I planted my Yukon Gold potatoes? Mike had his knee replaced on April 1, and I went out to the raised beds and just stuck the potatoes in the dirt about five days later. I posted about that here. I basically stuck 72 potatoes in the ground and left them alone.

I was so excited that they actually grew.

Yukon Gold Potatoes Rule

And got huge…

Taterhead May 23

I worried that I’d have beautiful plants with no potatoes. I tested this theory a few weeks ago and found one potato. Whew! Was I relieved!

Friday I decided to get some of the potatoes out of the garden for some rosemary potatoes. I pulled up one plant, and look what I found…I’m not even sure I got all the potatoes off the plant!

Yukon Gold MasterPieces

They were so good…so sweet and buttery…but I could easily have 300 pounds of potatoes from those four raised beds! Yikes! What in the world will I do with all of these potatoes?? Taterhead!!

It is a good year for growing things here in Mendota, Virginia. I picked cherries last week and made some yummy cherry pie filling by mixing sugar, flour and cinnamon in with the cherries. I used part of it and froze part of it. I could have gotten more cherries but have you ever pitted cherries? That is were the term “it’s the pits” must come from.

Cherry Pie Filling

And finally, look what happens when you are a lazy gardener…right in the corner of that potato patch sat a rotting pumpkin. I moved it after its insides fell out, but it left a little something behind.

Pumpkin GoneWild

Can’t wait to see what kind of pumpkin this is!! Hope you had a lovely Father’s Day!

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6 thoughts on “Taterhead Update

  1. Patsy

    Your potatoes look great! You can always supplement your income selling garden produce. Just give me a holler.

  2. Gayle

    Wow! I showed your plants in your old blog to Gary’s dad this weekend when we were over in NC and Gary was “hoeing” their potatoes! He was so impressed that you just laid them on top of the ground and got that! Yours look fabulous and I will definitely buy some from you! 🙂

    1. Eva Post author

      Humm….I may have mislead. I laid them on the top of the ground, but i DID go back and cover them with about two inches of dirt. However, there is no hoeing or anything…I just yank them out of the ground and give them a good shake! They aren’t even dirty!!

  3. judydee

    Yummy looking potatoes! You could try dehydrating some. I wouldn’t call you a lazy gardener for having a pumpkin volunteer in the potatoe be, just maybe forward thinking!

  4. DEBBIE Cassell

    Oh MY!!!! great harvest of potatoes….will be checking ours real soon….this makes me Hungry!!!!

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