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Glenna Rose · 02-07-2007, 05:21 PM posted to rec.gardens.edible

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"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.

Only rarely here, in fact I think the last time we had any real snow at
Thanksgiving was 1978. We made up for it that year with a doozy of a
storm. I remember the year because I worked for a contractor (excavation
and site utilities) and I was the only one who made it to work that week,
my Mercury Bobcat versus their four-wheel drives.

Occasionally, we will get up to three feet of snow, but that is not only
rare but also usually gone within a week - called flooding! In a severe
winter like that we can be 60s or 70s one day and during the next week
have snow, hail and ice, and be back at 60s a week later. It's just
bizarre. Since I grew up in eastern Washington where the climate is more
stable overall (cold in winter, hot in summer), it always seem peculiar
even after a lifetime on the west side of the Cascades.

Zone: Pacific Northwest, Zone 5 (dependent on which map), southwestern
Washington, think Portland, Oregon. We have a relatively mild climate,
most of the time. I thank all that is good on this earth that we are not
Kansas, Texas or southern California - how horrible for those folks and
everyone else who is going through such things and have in the past.

Glenna

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