Yesterday I decided to dig up the potatoes because the plants had pretty much died back. Last year's potato crop wasn't great. I mean it was okay, but we ended up with a lot of little golf ball sized or smaller ones. This year was a different story. I still had some some that were pretty small but all in all they looked about the same size as ones that you would buy at the grocery store. Only difference is we grew these. We planted them. We dug them. We knew exactly what went into that soil. They didn't come here all of the way from Idaho. They will only travel about fifty feet from the garden to the table where they will be eaten. Even though we grew twice as many spuds as we did last year I still don't think it is even half as many as we need for the winter. One step at a time. That's all we can do. We can't go from Wal-Mart dependent to totally self-sufficient over night, but we can learn. Year by year we can do a little more and do a little better. There is always room for improvement. Always room for refinement. It's a slow, life-long process.
... peppers too!
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