Suburban Gardening

So it was time, the potato plants were all dead.  I was worried as I never got any blooms on the plants as everyone else's blog were talking about.

I was pleasantly surprised from the Great Potato Experiment.

If you remember from one of my first blog entries, I just popped two red potatoes in the ground with no clue on how they will come out.  Only after the fact did I learn that you needed to build up the soil around the potatoes for any type of harvest, so I added a cardboard box.  I am all about recycling.  In the end the box just degraded away (hopefully improving the soil in the process).

Well I am pleased to say we got 3.5 pounds of nice red potatoes to enjoy.  A few small seed potatoes for next year's planting.

Here are the pictures taken while I was harvesting them (sorry some of them are a little dark, it was starting to get a little late, and I don't have the best digital camera).

I will be starting my next potato planting next weekend.  This time it will be in a 24" high pot that is about 18" round.  I am hoping they will do a little better in there.