Last winter I had the idea to go underground in planting my vegetable garden this year. Turned out that was a good idea. Here are a couple photos of my harvest I dug out on Sunday (plus one egg from the chicken coop-not underground) displayed in my trusty, rusty red Radio Flyer wagon. I got lots of carrots and lots of potatoes. I bought seed potatoes for Adirondack Blue, red, and Yukon Gold potatoes. I am not seeing any red potatoes here. I guess I ran into some false advertising or a shipping mix-up. In any case, I think I'll serve some blue mashed potatoes for Thanksgiving this year along with some plain russet mashed potatoes for the less adventurous. I will let the potatoes air out in the garage for a few days to toughen up their skins before bringing them in and storing them in my lower level. I had a good harvest this year for potatoes, carrots, green beans, jalapeno peppers, lettuce and sunflowers. I had a terrible year for tomatoes, bok choy and pumpkins. I have yet to clean out the garden, plant the garlic, and cut off my bean plants. I want to cut off the bean plants rather than pull them out because their roots have nodules of nitrogen which will leave the perfect spot to put tomatoes next year.
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