Protecting my Potatoes from 'Drowning' in the Garden

About a half hour ago, we had another torrential rainfall roll in - the second in as many days!!!

Fortunately, the elderly neighbor who I was checking in on by phone has better ears than mine, and asked if I just heard thunder nearby...(I hadn't) but, the question prompted me to glance towards the window and bend an ear to it.

YIKES, OH MY GOD and DAMNIT recklessly escaped from my jaws, across the wire and into the astonished auditory receptors of the good, Church going, old Christian woman on the other end of the line... (I'm going to Hell, for sure)

Geraldine had just returned from her Hospital stay for a heart condition, a mere twenty minutes earlier; 'I' almost sent her back there, gasping for air...but, I swear it was not intentional...

With a frightening blast of hurried words, I screamed "I GOTTA GO AND COVER MY POTATOES IN THE GARDEN..."

Fortunately, Gerry somehow understood, and replied with, "Okay...I have to get out there in the garden myself."

I quickly shoved the phone into my shorts and darted out the backdoor; startling my poor cat speedily off in the direction of the fence, hopping over it and disappearing through the underbrush in sheer terror...

My mission was accomplished just in the nick-of-time...the rain turned from a mild sprinkle into a raging downpour of epic proportion, soaking me to the bone before I ever reached the shelter of the porch.

As you can see in the photo, these potatoes are obviously being grown in a container and although there's ample drain holes, who knows if they were good enough to fend against two back-to-back rainstorms? (I wasn't going to take any chances) The little darlings might have drowned...!?!?!?

Anyway...here's a picture (below) of the stems creeping up above the mulch for the third time since sticking the spud in.

This is one of my experiments to see how many potatoes I can get from a late planting, and to see how BIG they get :>)

Now that the stems have poked out three different times after having been covered over again, I'm gonna let it grow another few inches before adding more mulch halfway up this time around. Letting the stems and leaves see daylight from now on, will prompt them to start forming babies below.

So, my friends...there you have it...my latest potato story now, I have to go look for my poor cat to coax back home again...

I'd better check on the old woman around the corner too while I'm at it...make sure she's alright and see if she needs anything from the store.

Gerry is almost 90 years old, and alone since her husband died some years back. She's done pretty good health wise till recently...so, I check on her and help her out when I can.

I'm outta here again for now my friends; see ya when I see ya...

Ciao

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Another Delightful Day in the Dungeon from @AngryMan on Steemit, August 18, 2019