This year is my first year REALLY doing a garden. I am getting some decent tomatoes, awesome cauliflower (fresher is WAY BETTER than the store stuff), one large zucchini, and I'm going to have so many red Italian sweet peppers I'll probably hate them by next spring.
I so tried potatoes! My son hilled them (piling dirt around the stem to keep all those baby taters warm and happy and hidden) and I let them grow grow grow.
Lately they haven't been looking all that great, so with a Google and a determined mind-set, I harvested most of the potatoes. I was SHOCKED at how many I have. Easily 25 lbs. 
My purple ones are much smaller than the red, but that's ok. There were many more. Odd though, smaller potato, bigger plant. Hm.
I still have about 5 plants in the ground, they look hale and hearty (always wanted to use that phrase!) so I'm leaving them until they start to look brown.
Had one totally stinky rotten one. Smelled so foul I gagged. Bleh!
Tonight we are dining on the purple - or blue - ones and they're getting sautéed in olive oil, a touch of garlic and salt. We are having a shepherds pie type of meal - no crust - over rice! Because Asian, duh.
Tonight we are dining on the purple - or blue - ones and they're getting sautéed in olive oil, a touch of garlic and salt. We are having a shepherds pie type of meal - no crust - over rice! Because Asian, duh.
Anyway, here are the photos from today and only one broken nail to show for it!
Also a couple potatoes were weird inside. I chucked them in the compost bin.
One looked like a baby Pokemon: 
After cutting them, into my reclaimed antique but totally usable square cast iron pan where they turned a nice shade of blue!
I can't wait to eat these!!!!
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