Since I didn't know the cause I decided that it was time to just harvest all of the spuds. It was kind of a disappointing harvest, but I do love fresh spuds. I know that most people just leave this as a vegetable to buy at the grocery store because of the space and cost. I bought one pound of seed potatoes from Territorial for around 4 bucks and harvested about 2 1/2 pounds. The way I look at it is that I couldn't have gotten this amount of fresh spuds for the same price. I do have to say that I have usually had great results just using organic potatoes that sat on the counter too long.
The big dissapointment is from the pea patch. I harvested all of the snap peas from my son's bed and the shelling Dakota peas from another bed. The snap peas were still flowering but I don't have a ton of recipes to use them with and my husband will surely love the carrots that I am going to plant in their place. The Dakota peas are super yummy, but they just didn't put out like I had hoped and they weren't flowering anymore. Some plants had 6-8 pods and others only had one or two on them. For the amount of peas I planted I only ended up getting 2.25 pounds. A success in that I love just going out to the garden and picking a few for a snack, but I have realized that if I want any to make it into the freezer that I would really need to devote a lot more space that I just don't have. I will try and plant some in early August and see if I can get another crop before the rains arrive.
When I first put the garden beds in I told my husband that I had a goal of harvesting two hundred pounds from the garden. At this point it doesn't look like I will hit that goal, but I have come to the conclusion that anything we harvest is better than getting it at the store or the farmer's market. A story about the Farmer's Market to come later.
