Digging the First Potatoes for This Year

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Hello, and welcome to my garden!

I had to mow the grass around my plots at the community garden yesterday, so I decided to bring my digging fork and a couple of buckets with me in case I had the ambition to dig some potatoes after I was done mowing. I decided to dig 1 row of the Adirondack Blue potatoes, and 1 row of the red potatoes to see how well each type had produced this year.

I have 4 rows of the blue potatoes and 2 rows of the red potatoes in the potato part of the garden plot. I also have 2 rows of Yukon Gold potatoes, but they're a bit harder to get to with all the squash plants growing across them.
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I decided to start digging on the first row of blue potatoes at the end of the garden. These rows are about 10-11 feet long, and there's 9 or 10 plants per row.
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After I was done digging up the row, I had 2 small piles of potatoes to show for my effort. I had dug up the first plant the week before to get a few potatoes, so there wasn't a full row of potatoes to dig. This is from the first half of the row, more or less.
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These are from the last few plants in the row. It seems the big potatoes were hiding under the last couple of plants.
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I ended up with a bit more than a half of a 5 gallon bucket from this one row.
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I had gone up to the garden in late afternoon, and by the time I started digging the row of red potatoes, I was starting to lose daylight. I ended up having to use the flash on the camera to get a picture of the red potatoes that I dug up. What I dug up turned out to be about a half a bucket of the red potatoes. None of them were as large as the largest blue potatoes, but they were still pretty nice size.
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Today, I dumped the buckets into my improvised drying rack to let the potatoes get dry. That makes it easier to get the dirt off them. I ended up with a pretty decent amount of potatoes for the two rows that I dug.
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You can see that I got more blue potatoes than I did red potatoes. If I get the same kind of yield from the other 3 rows of blue potatoes, I'll end up with a lot of blue potatoes.
As for the red potatoes, I have 1 more row to dig at the community garden, but I also have 4 longer rows of the reds in my garden at home. I think I'll have a lot of red potatoes this year.

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Red potatoes are my favourite! Do the blue end up a bit purple? We got some purpley ones today at the farmers market

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Yes, the blue potatoes are blue inside as well as outside. If you mash them, you get light purple mashed potatoes. :-)
Red potatoes are also my favorite, but I do like the flavor of these blue ones also.

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Oh I think we did get some with the blue insides too! But not this week, they were a mid size, this week we got full sized.

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