Monday 22 August 2011

A late potato harvest

Today is the six-month anniversary of the February earthquake. It's hard to believe we are still having significant aftershocks and the city centre is still behind a cordon while most of it is demolished or repaired. But nature doesn't care much and things will still grow where they can.
The weather has warmed up considerably since last week's snow, and it's hard to believe we had a blizzard less than a week ago. This afternoon I was off work and spent time digging potatoes from one of our raised beds, and it was so hot that I was just in jeans and a t-shirt!
The potatoes are very small apart from four or five half-decent sized ones. The plants didn't thrive last year so I'm surprised we harvested anything at all, but this recycling bin is about one-third full.

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