The Modern Victory Garden

This morning I dug up four pounds of fresh potatoes for the purposes of preparing a potato salad for our Fourth of July dinner menu.    I harvested some "Caribe" ( which are the purple skinned potatoes), a volunteer "Yukon Gold" plant, and I stole a couple of "Red Cloud" potatoes (red one in the center of the photo) out from under a plant.   I also cut a few zucchinis and pulled a couple of onions.

The early season potatoes (Caribe & Red Cloud) are starting to get some good size on them.  The mid season potato (Yukon Gold) is a little smaller at this point but definitely well on their way too.                 

This morning I had a nice garden visit from Lori Christie. She lives in the Seabeck area, which is quite close by. We spent almost two hours walking about the garden and talking about what we each do in our respective gardens, the changes we have made or plan to make, and the things that are working for us currently.   It is a very warm day today, so we tended to keep migrating back into shadier areas to catch a little relief from the sun! All in all it was a very pleasant visit and it was quite fun to meet Lori in person.                      

Happy Fourth of July everyone!