What's Been Going on in the Campo

25/07/07 Harvested the Potatoes

Have dug up and stored all the potatoes. They were dying off naturally a few weeks ago, so stopped watering them and they all died off quickly then.
Have been simply digging the potatoes when we needed them but now the skins are set (they have a firm skin that doesn't easily rub off) and one of our dogs likes digging them up and bringing them to us, it seamed time store them.

Having dug them all, only those that were undamaged and showed no sign of disease were put in a sack and placed in our coolest dark place.
Damaged potatoes will be used as soon as possible and some of the smaller ones may used as seed - if we plant them at the end of August, we may have new potatoes for Christmas.
We have had a good yield of potatoes this year.