Robin

Am also setting out red potato this year. Someone gave me a bunch of seed potato and I have room so want to see if there is any difference in production, storability, and taste.

All the plants survived the frost.  Hooray.

Spent most of the morning hands-and-knees weeding the winter beans.  They are now 6 inches tall.  Then the massive thunderstorm hit.  No damage.  And I enjoyed relaxing a bit while watching its fury from the dry-ness of my porch.

Tried the shallots this year, but am very disappointed.  They are plentiful, but soooo small.  It seems to take forever to prepare them for use.  The flavor is good, but so tiny will not plant them again.

Some 6 plants came up from last year and we have been eating the new leaves.  Now I see that they are starting to bolt.  That means they are putting up flower stems from which I will get seeds for next year.  They are biennial producers i.e. first year leaves, second year seeds. They are…

Had a whopper of a thunderstorm storm last evening.  Worst I have seen in a long while.  Put the electricity out for hours and into the night.  We have surge protectors for the fridge, freezer and computers, but the clocks show an outage of more than 2 hours.  We have emergency lighting, candles, flashlights and…