Life in Tee Harbor, Alaska

Potato Harvest

There was finally a little break in the weather this afternoon - I even saw the sun!  That has been a rare occurance this summer.  It was a great chance to dig up our potatoes - organic Yukon Gold.  The plants have all died and I was worried the potatoes might have rotted with all the rain we have been having.  But they were perfectly fine!  Yea!!  I dug half of the large raised bed and here is what I ended up with:

There are a few good sized ones in there, most are smaller ones.  I am hoping there is about 2 more bucket fulls left to harvest - the other half of the raised bed and the four potato bins.  We don't have a root cellar or a basement, so no real good spot to store them.  I'll save out some for the next month or so, but will try canning some and maybe drying some too.  I would like to be able to store some to use as next year's seed potatoes...  Anyone have any advice?

Potatoe Picking!

1:11 PM, Thursday, September 18, 2008 .. Posted by HLPeyton

What a nice supply of potatoes! We harvested our sweet potatoes today, what fun to dig them up.

Enjoy!

Heidi

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1:32 PM, Tuesday, September 30, 2008 .. Posted by CandyFoote

Great job!
We have enjoyed our potato harvest.

I love the way that you set up your soap displaly.

I'm going to check out your website right now.

Candy