[AT] new spuds

[Ronald L. Cook]

Dudley,
         What I found under each plant were two nice baseball sized 
potatoes and many marble sized.  Something to do with the growing season, I 
suppose.  I hate to use up a whole plant for two potatoes when the plant 
will have eight or ten by fall.  And of course you are right.  Our own are 
just better.

Ron Cook
Salix, IA

>A friend just stopped by and his answer was, "go to the farmer's market and
>buy some new potatoes that someone else has picked.  Save yours for
>winter."  Now I wonder why the heck I didn't think of that one?
>
>Yeah, but isn't the fun of gardening being able to eat your' own stuff ...
>Seriously, I know I must be missing something in this thread but couldn't
>you just dig all the potatoes out of one hill and not worry about saving the
>plant and then from the marble size to golf ball size just throw all of them
>in the pan with the peas and new carrots?  When Fall comes maybe you would
>still have plenty of untouched hills to dig up as mature potatoes.  For the
>many years we had a garden that's the way we did it but maybe that wasn't
>the most efficient way to do it.
>
>Dudley
>Snohomish, Washington