Are you tired of seeing photos of potatoes yet? Here are the last couple of baskets of this year's potato crop. There's Desiree and the Russian Banana fingerlings.
I also had my first handful of pole beans yesterday, and we're continuing to get very tasty tomatoes.
As Bill Finch noted in last week's garden column, plan to get your tomato seedlings in the ground at the end of June if you want a fall crop.
ADDITIONAL INFO (8 Jun): I wasn't keeping meticulous records, but my estimated yields from the potato plants are as follows:
Caribe: an additional plant or two put the total at just under eight pounds
Desiree: just under seven pounds
Russian Banana: just over five and a half pounds
TOTAL: about 20 pounds for three pounds of seed potatoes. That's probably about 50% less than could be expected under ideal growing conditions, but since this is just my second year growing potatoes and my conditions are not exactly ideal, I feel like I'm doing pretty good. I estimate between a five to ten percent loss because of insects.
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