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What's Growing in the Garden

trc65 said:
The first I think is Japanese hops. The second weed is giant ragweed.

Very nice looking berries.

If the potatoes continue to dry up, nothing to do for them. However, doesn't mean you have to dig them. They will store in the ground just fine, and dig a few when you need them. My Norlands will die off in a few weeks and they stay in the ground until I want to eat a few. Other than some potential rodent eating a little, they will be fine until the ground freezes.
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When the kids were all at home I used to plant and store quite a few potatoes. One year I had a lot more than we could use before they got soft and sprouted in April. I picked out a couple bushel of the best ones, put them in milk creats and buried them a couple of feet deep. I put a piece of plywood over the creats and mulched the area well after I filled the hole. I dug them up in the spring and they looked pretty much like they did when I burried them. They did sprout quite fast after I dug them but they lasted until the baby potatoes were ready in July. I've done it a few times since with similar results, I expect if there was one bad potato in the lot that they would all rot.
 
sprucegum said:
When the kids were all at home I used to plant and store quite a few potatoes. One year I had a lot more than we could use before they got soft and sprouted in April. I picked out a couple bushel of the best ones, put them in milk creats and buried them a couple of feet deep. I put a piece of plywood over the creats and mulched the area well after I filled the hole. I dug them up in the spring and they looked pretty much like they did when I burried them. They did sprout quite fast after I dug them but they lasted until the baby potatoes were ready in July. I've done it a few times since with similar results, I expect if there was one bad potato in the lot that they would all rot.
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Good way to store them.

About the one bad potato... An extra benefit to leaving them in the ground is any tubers that are infected, will rot and dry up in the ground before you dig them for storage. Additionally, the skins of the potato will naturally "harden off" and they will store better and resist pathogens better.
 
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