Monday, July 15, 2013

Harvesting My Container Garden

Today I harvested my new red potatoes!  They've been growing since late April, so a little over 2 months old.  They are super cute and round.  Awe...


I also learned two things: (1) potatoes do not like damp soil - all the potatoes at the bottom of the container were rotten!  (2) potatoes exposed to sunlight (i.e. poking out of the soil) turn green and are not good to eat!

Yield from 1 seed potato: 3 rotten, 3 good, 1 green
I also harvested my Swiss chard! The left-behind plants look so naked.  But I know they will grow back new leaves for me to harvest later.

Harvested chard


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