Harvest Bounty

Potatoes and onions reached the end of their likely growth, and so, on a cold damp day last Saturday we harvested them.  This is one of the things that we both really enjoy.  The adventure of digging potatoes, and marveling at how many we find, is great fun for small work.  Now, I suppose if we planted many more, and were really trying to grow enough to sustain us for the year, the work of digging them might become less of a party and more of a chore.  But, we only manage to harvest about 30 or 40 pounds, and this is likely to last us until just after the holiday season.  Then we will buy the rest that we need at the grocery store like most people do. 

 

 

 

I sometimes wonder what we could manage to harvest from this yard if we had to use it to sustain ourselves.  We could surely expand the growing space, and we could give up some of the ornamentals.  I could learn to grow storable vegetables, winter squash, etc.  We could can more perhaps, freeze less.  But the things like potatoes and onions that require nothing more than cool, dry storage, seem to be the most efficient.