Here it is not quite the middle of July and we have EARS OF CORN. That’s right, not just knee high stalks but EARS of corn. Wacky!
Tonight just for grins I took my spade and carefully dug through the outer edge of one of the burlap bags and found this little beauty. My first Ernst Roesling potato, the perfect size for potato salad or hash browns. In fact, I could have dug them up weeks ago and had a nice little Swedish potato boil. These are a very rare and pricey type of potato that I bought from Olsen farms in early spring. I was so excited to find them and now I’m twice as excited to be eating them!
I’ll find out tomorrow how many potatoes I have in that bag. That is the bag that I didn’t end up hilling because it fell over and I didn’t get around to righting it before the potatoes started growing. In fact, they grew through the burlap bag so I ended up just cutting holes so they could stretch their legs. I’m really curious to see how many potatoes I get from the Yukon Gold whiskey barrel that I did hill. We’ll see if hilling is really so worth the effort for someone with a limited supply of non-clay dirt…
Here is a potato mystery that still has me scratching my head. Of course this is the first time I’ve grown potatoes (but it certainly won’t be the last!) but I can’t figure this one out. I found these strange looking fruit on the Yukon Gold plants.
And then found a random blog post about them on that wonderful thing called the internet. It seems mine aren’t the only potatoes to ever fruit. Strange! And good to know not to eat them, although I had already guessed that since I had heard the only non-toxic part of the potato plant is the tuber.
I have heard others report getting a fruit on potato plants – but have never seen a picture of one and certainly never experienced it myself. It is my understanding that certain varieties of potatoes are more prone to setting fruits than others.
Nice ears of corn! I am getting some formed now too – but they are not as far along (no silks yet) as yours are. Good work.
Looks like our gardens are just about at the same stage of development, although I haven’t seen any tassles on my corn yet.
And, hey, we use the same blog template!
Kitsap FG – I wish I could take credit for it – this weather is crazy.
Sandy – it’s a nice clean one, isn’t it? Love your blog!