Every year we try to plant potatoes in our meager garden. Since we are gone so much in the summer, potatoes are easy to plant and leave . . . and when it is time for harvest, we pretend it is Christmas.
This year we planted many more potatoes than normal. We had allowed some from last year to sprout, so we planted those as well as new ones. Most of the potatoes from last year were of the purple variety, so when it was time to harvest, we were inundated with purple potatoes. For a K-Stater, that is not a bad thing, as they retain their purple color through the cooking.
We harvested after July 4, though we did a few plants while Caleb was in Wichita, just to show him how it is done. The picture shows how many potatoes we harvested, and I am certain there are more in the ground, but we did not find them.
Not long after, I took a dish of red, white and purple potato salad, made from freshly harvested potatoes from our backyard. I have to admit, it was pretty tasty . . . and attractive, too.
After the harvest, Don decided to try growing pumpkins for Halloween. We hope we can take one of our homegrown pumpkins to Kansas City to carve with Caleb!!!
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