Oct 31

I dug the last of the potatoes on Halloween. These were at the house garden. I was afraid that I was going to have to dig these by hand due to the small area, but decided that I could use the tractor if I dug half from one direction and than turned the tractor around and dug the second half. This worked well.

Here are the total for the potatoes.

Lasota (50 lbs of seed spuds) 946 lbs
Pontiac (50 lbs of seed spuds) 1454 lbs
Yukon Gold (about 20 lbs of seed spuds) 240 lbs

The Yukon are an earliy variaty and the vines started to die back in August.

We started digging the Pontiac as new potatoes and had eaten about half of the crop at the house garden before I started digging two weeks ago. The Pontiacs at the house garden suffered sunburn (green) more then the ones at the mega garden due to the rocky soil here at the house. As a result I left more on the ground at the house.

I may never know the true weight of the Burbanks due to the row that froze and the number that we didn't harvest due to the shape, but I guess it is somewhere around 300 lbs.

Here are more photos of the tractor and the middle buster set-up.