Potato Harvest From Two Hugelkulter 6 foot Mounds

Potato Harvest Curing In The Basement

This was combined with the potatoes I pulled out from the larger hugelkulter. Overall I would say the idea of planting potatoes in the hugel mounds worked excellently.. I don't know if I would have grown more or less if I had not used the hugel method, since I haven't ever done this before.

I thoroughly enjoyed pulling them all out of the ground. It wasn't very difficult once I found a rhythm. I had to heavily weed prior to pulling, and I think I will try hard to prevent weeds in the future, and give a chance for a larger yield. I wanted to pull these potatoes so I could plant some for a fall harvest. I am going to use more store bought potatoes, but these are baby potatoes.. I don't know if harvested prior to full size or this is full size.. because I would not mind trying something new, and perhaps a smaller potato wouldn't take as long to grow with the frost date approaching for here in Southeast PA hardiness zone 6b.

Fall Green peas growing steadily

Cool cool nights aid in the growth of these puppies. Still having some extreme heat each day in the full Sun though, and Monday and Tuesday are predicted to be a doozy of a heat wave. These were started from the peas from my last generation I started in the spring. Soon they will take off like lightning to begin producing some more fresh peas for the fam!

They really live up to the saying, "homegrown tastes so much sweeter", that times a million.