Potatoes and carrots!!

POTATOES AND CARROTS!!!!! I dug up one plant for each. I thought
the potatoes were goners because the plants had dried right up and
died. Boy was I surprised to find two decent potatoes and three
minis!! The carrots are supposed to be baby ones and I picked one of
the smaller plants to dig up, so I'm excited about the two-incher
that was in there alone with a teensy one and a maybe-one-incher.
When I first started digging, I didn't feel anything near the ground
part of the plant. I found roots, but that was all. I smell carrot
strongly, though. So, I simply dug the whole plant right out of the
ground with the spade, sticking it straight down in on all sides as
if I were transplanting. When the dirt fell away, ho! Carrots!!

I'm now excited about gardening again. I was saddened when the
potato plants died but given the yield off one chunk of potato, it
was not bad after all. And, the green onions are doing marvelous.
They're strong and healthy and still growing. The peppers are still
little plants but healthy also and nicely green. Tomatoes have some
yellow spots unfortunately, but then, I never thinned them like I was
supposed to. The two by the door are getting taller every day! All
this, and all I did was nurse them for the first month or two. Now
they're all largely ignored and thriving... egads, first spinach, and
now potatoes and carrots! Oh yeah, and the coriander has sprouted
tall weedlike things with flowers... I've gotta make sure I collect
any seeds it sends out... and the parsley's still alive... that
should spread on its own if it does what the texts say... and the
pennyroyal - which I thought was just a ground cover - is sprouting
up with some taller shoots. Gotta look into that as I didn't expect it!

Well, I'm going to go read now... :) (Or write... LOL)

~nv