People often ask us after Labor Day if the garden is done - hardly. We follow the familiar sequence - first onions are harvested and cured for storage. Next squash is harvested and cured. Then we start the "big dig" with the potato harvest. Thursday and Friday we harvested potatoes.
It was beautiful weather. Ken ran the tractor with v plow and then picked potatoes - I helped, but he did the bulk of the picking.
Then all the potatoes come into the yard where I sort, grade and box up for the root cellar.
The big dig continues as we dig sweet potatoes, celery root, rutabagas, beets, carrots, and radishes for root cellaring. Of course we will have a couple breaks in digging as the garlic has to be planted and Ken continues planting for this fall and next spring.
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