Having a great time! Wish you were here!
I'm done! At least with the digging phase. This is the second day's harvest. I can't wait till next year to do this again. It took me at least twice as long to dig these as normal. Our blessed rains arrived just in time to soak the ground and make the clumps heavier and messier. I also found this jumbled mess of matted roots, or moss or whatever (?) in much of the backyard bed. It's growing over, under and through the clumps. I had to dig down and try to separate it from the clumps so I could pull them out of the ground. Still, I broke more tuber necks today than in all the other years combined. I felt like I was in a tug-of-war contest. Some clumps had 4 or 5 handfuls of this stuff around them. There's nothing growing on top of the ground. I've never seen this much of it before. I'm tired and will pass on any workouts tonight.
Thanks, but those tubers yesterday were not close to being clean. A lot of wet soil hanging on them. I finished washing the ones today and put everything away. Then I remembered the other six growing along the tool shed. I went ahead and dug them but left them lying on top of the ground. The next rain can clean them. I wasn't about to unroll the hose again.
The nice thing about today was the weather. We had a sun/cloud mix and temps in the mid 60's. Not bad for late November!
