Still waiting for my potatoes from the Maine Potato Lady but this year newbies will be:
MonDak Gold fron Carter Farms
Sunrise Gold and Jelly Potato from Irish Eyes
Soraya from Maine Potato Lady

Maize:
I have a huge variety of seeds and have not yet decided what goes in.

I forgot I had set aside the yield from Sapiro Mira I got from Seed Savers Exchange last year so add that to the varieties.

I finished planting all potatoes, unless I get a hair up my buttocks, in both gardens.
Guessing approx. 24 plants up North, plus or minus X, and 60 plants down South , plus or minus X. ( I gave the last dozen and a half or so carry-overs, I had Zero reason to plant to my Cousin's Mom, still very edible.)
Planting up North was easy, I did it all on my knees but I am so gawd awful out of shape (Two months ago I could squat and stand with ease, now, it is , maybe I should just duck-walk , especially today)

I roto-tilled the South Garden yesterday, a bit wet, and planted 16 Sapiro Mira before dark;

Well I figured out the pain rush, when you dig/plant potatoes from your knees you use your back, shoulder and arm; when you do the same standing up you also use calves and thighs, those were what did not like it from lack of use.
Mother's day all was well, again.

We had heavy rain this morning and it is 58 degrees, humid and heavy clouds right now at Noon.
The weather map predicts a high of 81 but if it is wrong I will be happy. 🙀

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I have to do the South Garden tomorrow, no way out, but I will make a doctor appointment/s, maybe the specialist and regular doctor.

Really , really annoying as a month or so ago , I felt the best since before I threw my shoulder out thirty years ago.

Re-tilled South Garden so I could plant corn; roto-tiller went pffft on last pass (belt broke).
Spent as much time sitting and thinking how-where I was going to plant as actuall planting; I found out I must have given the squirrels a lot of old seed last year as I still had a large cache but not as much as I had last year.
Put in :
Sweet Corn:
Double Red
Martian Jewels
Breeder's Choice
Kandy Korn
Country Gentlemen

Field Corn:
Aunt Mary's Dent
Casto Family Heirloom
H&M Yellow Dent
Henry W. Wood Seed Co.

Black Sweet Potato Squash

Found a handful of Sarpo Mira potatoes , in a bucket, I am assuming I had saved for planting up North, so I brought them up to plant.

For once the North Garden will finish after the South; potatoes , tomatoes, chiles, onions are in up North but corn, radish, lettuce, squash are not in.
Sharon bought Batchelor's Buttons, Marigold and Zinnia I said I would like to put in but not sure where I will put them now.
May futher enlarge the berm and put some there.

Corn going in up North:
Sweet
Precious Gem --- A screw-up as I was at a true green house, looking for Cocoa Bean Hulls, and saw those seed packets were the last ones they had, of any breed, and mis-read-- I thought it was Precocious Gem but I have had worse.

Field Corn
Baxter's Yellow
Tait's White Gem

Green house had the cheapest, and very hard to find, Cocoa Bean Hulls, for $15 a bag; I bought ten, which was better than the two Sharon bought at a different green house for $18 a bag.

I went home this week (and the radiator on my car went pffft) but as bad as that is, the turkeys back home managed to stomp six of eight corn plots into oblivian; they did not pull up the young plants but stomped them over killing them. ---- (I could see where they scratched dirt while standing on the corn. (sub-sonic 22s while sitting on the roof, seems to be the only cure)

I may replant some but that means ordering new seeds on line for the pffft sweet corn.

Or I may just plant excess unused seeds I have , or I could just let the purslane take over. --- ( I did not stop a young ones to death last year when I found them in the garden but that error will never happen again.)

Heading home tomorrow to resume work on my automobile and see if I squished enough of the potato beetles to stop the damage , finally do some work on the roses and assess which side of the garage to prepare for painting first.

At least that is what is supposed to happen.🙏
75 right now and pleasant weather for the next week, with possible rain in a couple of days.

Will mow the hill here with the newly purchased used Lawn Boy 2 stroke we picked up last week for 250 bucks, so when I go home tomorrow I can haul the fifty plus year old mower I got from my late Aunt back home and not worry about ruining it with oil starvation on the very steep hill up North.
Potatoes up North are going gangbusters as is most of the garden , and while I filled several ex-mulch plastic bags with weeds I picked, weeds were not too bad up North compared to the sea of green down South.
Yellow Nut-Grass has re-emerged up North but I had a choise of cutting a already long lawn or treating and now mowing till treatment has soaked in , so I mowed and now will wait till lawn grows and bad spots re-emerge.☠️

I planted Baxter's Yellow and Tait's White Gem corn up North, along with Precious Gem Sweet corn, but on the Tait's White Gem the tassels are white like sweet corn.
Odd.

In one of those things you do not expect when you just assume you did some thing; I have been digging my Ozette Potato, well, for some reason that seemed funny so I looked back at posts that told what I was going to plant. I did not order any Ozette Potatoes, or Ramona -- I did order Mondak Gold and Sunrise Gold but I printed on the stake what the package of potatoes said.
SO
I am not unhappy but annoyed I could be that thickheaded for it to take this long to seem odd to me.
Que sera, sera

Well - better to be "annoyed" than "unhappy" RpR !

I dug out all the Ozette, Soraya and Ramona potatoes up North, there is one row of Jelly Potatoes left.
Between the three, I got one-half bushell of potatoes; Soraya and Ramona gave me some nice bakers , even the Ozette gave me a couple the size of pool balls, there is about a dozen marbles all told.
Between the two gardens , when done, I figure some where between one and two dozen.
There will not be many, if any carry overs next spring.

I started digging my Jelly potatoes yesterday, found out I missed two Ramona potato hills and dug them up also.
Odd thing in the Jelly row, dug of three of ten, give or take a hill, and two produced normal, expected yield, one had a two BIG bakers, but the third produced three potatoes the size of chicken eggs.
Now this variety really throws the potatoes off to one side of the main stem, but I enlarged the hole and used my finger to scrape in the hole to see if there are not some off to the side - (I have found a lot I would have missed this way) - but those three were it - (there were two up at surface level but it seemed the Jelly is one where hilling, very high hilling, might pay off) - in the hole.

Next year I will move the potatoes over to the other side of the garden for a few years as this reduces chance of biological nasties messing up the yield..
My tall field corn looks to have a very good yield for cobs, but is still weeks from time to pick and bundle up as shocks.
I will pull the shorter of the two field corns as the stalks are starting to fall apart already but surprisingly , the sweet corn stalks, (usually sweet corn stalks fall apart quickly) are still green and standing tall.

I dug up the last of the potatoes up North yesterday; I thought there were five plants but there were just 4 very large plants.
Two were the Jelly Potato I expected but the other two were Ramona potatoes.
They being there explained why I had one short row earlier to avoid conflict with the rhubarb, I had curved the row at the end behind the berm.

Those plants , either variety right behind the berm produced the very best potatoes but then they got the fertilizer bleed off from the onions planted on the berm and I fertilized them often till July.
One Ramona was the largest potato in the entire garden longer than my hand and just as wide.
Back when I made French Fries very, very often that would have been one meal.

Hope to finally , problems with accessing a nut, but just as much being a lazy arse, get the car running and head down to my house to clean up that garden, except for the Hopi Cushaw squash which loved this summer; let them go till Oct. at least.
Last time there , there was an abundant yield of Ground Cherries, they last quite a bit on the ground so pick-up, clean and make sauce out of those.
My brother loves ground cherries but if he is to lazy to come home , he gets ZIP!