I’ve spent the past few days working at pulling out the summer crop and setting up my garden boxes for the winter crop \u2013 or for laying fallow for the winter.\u00a0 While working with these boxes, I\u2019ve come across a few surprises.<\/p>\n
One was a fair number of tiny garlic plants.\u00a0 Some were just poking their heads up through the dirt; some were still curled up underground.\u00a0 All had small, onion-like bulbs and a few inches of green leaf making its way sunward.\u00a0 I\u2019ve tossed these into the salad making supplies in the fridge.\u00a0 I have a plentiful supply of garlic cloves on hand already so I feel no need to try to nurture these to maturity.<\/p>\n
Another surprise was a fair number of small potatoes.\u00a0 Some were not too much of a shock: I had potatoes in those boxes earlier in the year and must have missed a few very small potatoes when I harvested the box.\u00a0 These had now grown to 1\u00bd-by-3-inch spuds.\u00a0 BONUS!\u00a0 A few had rotted \u2013 blech!<\/p>\n
The shocker was when I pulled out a box of pole beans.\u00a0 I raked the dead leaves and vine debris off the top of the dirt for composting and as I scratched the surface of the soft soil I rolled up a couple of small spuds.\u00a0 These were an inch or so long and were sitting just under the surface, buried by dead leaves.\u00a0 I grabbed my cultivator and began carefully pulling up the rich, dark humus and turning it over.<\/p>\n
Working carefully I discovered another dozen or so taterlets, each between \u00be inches and 1\u00bd inches in diameter.\u00a0 What was amazing to me about this is that there have not been potatoes planted in this box since LAST summer!<\/p>\n
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