"Glenna Rose" wrote in message
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That's what I do for the first ones, but I leave them in the ground and
dig as I want them. My garden has good drainage so there's not a problem
with spoilage. As the weather starts into the 30s, the potatoes (and
carrots) get much sweeter. There is no potato like one that has just been
dug from the garden on New Year's Day. :-)

New Year's Day last year, we had sauerbrauten with potatoes and cabbage
straight from the garden. I could not believe that unpicked cabbage could
still be good, but inside the outer bad looking leaves was delicious
cabbage (purple for sweet and sour cabbage). I expected the 'taters to be
good but certainly not the cabbage.

Our gardens are full of surprises and most of them are good surprises.


What zone are you in? Some people are under a foot of snow by
Thanksgiving.