One potato, two potato, three potato, four . . . or is that four hundred? We didn’t count them, but it was a whole lot of potatoes harvested from just one row this morning! Good ones! And there are still three more rows remaining for future harvests, so get those gloves out and get ready for the next few garden workdays. There is a certain joy in discovering what lies hidden beneath the soil when harvesting potatoes, kind of like an Easter egg hunt. Want to join us next time?

All in all, it was a very productive morning, especially given the holiday weekend. In addition to potatoes, we harvested peas, strawberries (yum!), three kinds of lettuce, spinach, arulgula, raspberries, kale, Swiss chard, broccoli, beets, cabbage, turnips, and kohlrabi. By the way, kohlrabi was first recorded being grown in northern Europe in 1554, and had reached North America at least by the early 1800’s. The name is a German word meaning cabbage (kohl) – turnip (rabi), describing the turnip-like enlargement of the stem above the soil (it is not a root vegetable). The purple ones seem to be doing better than the white ones.

We also planted a row of hot peppers (four varieties) plus a row of sweet peppers (another three varieties). To finish off the morning, everyone jumped into tackling the weeds. Not bad for a morning’s work!