I love growing all kinds of vegetables, but potatoes are among my favorites. They’re easy to plant and require very little attention.
The fun comes in when it’s time to dig ’em up. I usually let the kids do this (they’ve been doing it this morning) because it’s nothing short of a treasure hunt. You just dig and dig and dig, and potatoes just keep coming. Just when you think you’ve combed through all the dirt, another surprise will pop up. And the sizes are so much fun: you get great big mamas and cute little babies. And no shape is alike.
Gardening is such a blast.
I have chard and kale coming all over, and my brocolli and cauliflower are doing great! I wish, however, that I had planted potatos this year! They look great!!
Potatoes are great fun to grow! A real treasure hunt for sure. I like All Blue the best.
Wish *I* had that many potatoes. We have one raised bed and 6 potato plants.It’s kinda sad.
I hope you share your receipe for that potato salad with us. I have lots of red potatoes.
I love fresh potatoes! My parents and son and myself dug up all of our potatoes this last week.
We are a looong way from harvesting potatoes. The garden got such a late start with our cold spring! But I am making potato salad. I discovered an easier way! Instead of boiling the taters, I cut them up, skins on (another step skipped- *peeling*), tossed them with some oil and roasted them in the oven. They are done in twenty minutes, then cooled in another twenty. The potato salad is a bit different from the boiled tater kind but still delicious and so EASY and less time consuming! Have a great party!
May I suggest? Crashed potatoes!!
Your recipe is a favorite around here.
May I suggest a lovely grilled new potato salad with a little red onion and some fresh dill!
I’ve never grown potatoes. Do you start with seeds or plants?
Thank you for posting this picture of your harvest! My Great Grandma passed away in May, 84 days shy of her 100th birthday. She used to have a large garden of various things including red potatoes that she loved harvesting with kids, grand kids and great grand kids. One year she only planted the potatoes so she could spend time harvesting with everyone! We’d go out and collect potato bugs in jars as kids which I think was just a way of the adults getting us out of their hair for a bit! 🙂 We’d also bring the potatoes in, wash em, put them in some boiling water just to soften up a bit, quarter them and fry them in butter and some seasoning then serve them with more butter!!
God, I wish we lived in a place where I could have a garden. I love potatoes freshly dug up from the ground. The taste is phenomenal. Red potatoes make the BEST potato salad because they are less starchy and have better flavor. I always leave the skins on and it makes the salad look extra pretty.
Hope you are posting your recipe for these.
I had a great-uncle who raised potatoes to sell and would sit on the front porch with him and watch him cut the potatoes into pieces to plant. Then spend a long summer waiting for the results. It was fun to go out and dig around to see if we could find any big enough to use.
I wish I could grow some potatoes but I think it would take a miracle to get them to grow in a planter!
I love growing potatoes too, and almost always have a good harvest. Last year, for some reason, was the exception. But this year is making up for it.
Wowee! Nice crop. I’d better trot out to our garden and see how ours are doing. We had to plant twice because of the rains, and now I sure wish we could get a sprinkle. How are you having time to post today with your celebration today? I’d be a basket case.
Yum! I love fresh potatoes and potatoe salad sound soo good right now!
Looking at this post as a sign from God that I AM supposed to make potato salad today. I woke up thinking that I needed to do something and “make potato salad and deviled eggs” has been stuck in my brain. Just got that “nod” of confirmation; off to the store I go!
Those potatoes are awesome! I think I will try and grow some. I’d love to see more pictures of your garden. How about a photo assignment on vegetable gardens? It would be great fun to see other’s veggie gardens. Have a great 4th with family and friends!
You start with “seed potatoes”… Untreated (most supermarket potatoes have been treated to discourage growth of eyes) potatoes which have stated to grow eyes. Simply cut the potatoes apart so that each piece has an eye, and plant. As the potatoes grown you can “hill” them by pulling more dirt up around them so that soon, they have lots of room to produce lovely treasures underground!
This makes me want to grow potatoes! Maybe next year.
Yes, finally someone who understands my favorite childhood garden memory…digging up the potatoes. My dad did the digging…my job was plucking those treasures out from the dirt…loved it!!!
Your gardening posts make me want to move to the country. I don’t have much room in my small backyard, but I do have a small vegetable and herb garden, It’s so great to be able to cook up something that came from the backyard garden.
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