Garden Stories, Growing Potatoes, Part 2, Harvesting Potatoes

Hello, steemies and garden lovers!

In my previous post about potatoes, I talked about planting and growing the potatoes. In this post, I'll be talking about harvesting the potatoes.

At the end of August, I started digging up the potatoes. At that time, I only dug up 2 rows of the red potatoes. I was busy with other garden stuff, so I just dug up 2 rows to have some potatoes to eat.
This is the garden plot with the red potatoes, and also the Yukon Gold potatoes.

These are the potatoes from the first 2 rows that I dug.

At some point in September, I dug up the other 2 rows of red potatoes. For that, I only have a picture of the potatoes. I had the potatoes spread out to dry so that I could wipe the dirt off them.

I still had 3 rows of Yukon Gold potatoes to dig up in the garden plot where the red potatoes had been. I started digging those at the beginning of October. I got a bucket of potatoes from each row, which I thought was pretty good.

Here's all the Yukon Gold potatoes after I washed them off with the garden hose.

After I was done digging all the rows in that garden plot, I started digging in the other garden plot. First, I dug up some of the blue potatoes. I had 2 rows that only half of the plants came up, so I dug those first. They were the 2 rows closest to the end of the garden plot.

These are the blue potatoes after I washed them.

While I was there that time, I also dug up 1 row of the white potatoes.

A few days later, I went back to the garden plots and dug up the other 3 rows of Russet white potatoes. These potatoes grew very well in the loose soil of this garden plot.

After I finished digging the potatoes, I raked that part of the garden out flat.

All I had left to dig after that was the last 2 rows of blue potatoes. I went back a couple of days later and dug those up.

That was the last of harvesting the potatoes. I have a large refrigerator in the basement that I keep the potatoes in for the winter. They should be kept between 38 and 40 degrees F for proper storage. I would like to have a root cellar for storing food such as potatoes, but that's not possible where I live, so I use the refrigerator.

That's all I have for this post, I hope you found it interesting!