Red Norland potato harvest

The "All Blue" and "Yukon Gold" are still green and vibrant, but the "Red Norland" were yellowing and browning. I dug the row this morning, and I can't promise this is all of them, but if it is we got 4 big ones, 10 fist sized, and 8 little ones. This is a RoI of 7 ( I planted 3 and ended up with 24.)

Here's the post back when I planted these: http://henfieldhomestead.blogspot.com/2011/04/potato-planting-time.html

I had intended to plant beans in between the rows, but the potato beetles were already here (June 11) when I planted the beans (June 18th), so if they repelled them I'd be surprised. Fortunately, I really didn't have any problem with the potato beetles (unlike friends across town that got inundated). And, the potato stalks fell over in a strong rainstorm and suppressed the newly emerged bean stalks. So I wouldn't say that approach was worth much.

First zucchini!

The onion crop

4 sq feet each, planted from sets.

Harvest.

Ames was up early this morning and rather than fight him back to sleep I figured we'd hit the garden before the sun did.

We started with the last of the garlic harvest. 25 heads. These are bigger than the others. It's a variety I've grown for a few years, but I don't remember the name.

Then we moved on to the onions. The leaves had fallen over but were still green. They might have grown longer, but I was worried the bulbs might not keep due to leaf damage from falling over. Also, we are in a major dry spell, which is a good time to harvest onions. I need to water the crops next to the onions, but didn't want to get the onions wet. Anyway, we had 36 yellow and 21 red onions of respectable size. These were growing with less competition than the other patch and were much bigger.

We also pulled the last of the carrots, which were splitting. Next year I need to plant carrots in succession.

And then there were the first string beans and potatoes. Awesome!

First Red Norland potatoes!

First string beans!

A tomato

In three weeks we'll be out of ways to eat it. But right now - wow.