Wow, Dan, digging tubers in January. Previously an impossibility.
Garden journaling hasn't begun yet. Just still gathering all the scraps of paper and piling them up.
I'm not going to wallow in the wood shavings to check tubers. It will be a March 'surprise', when I begin potting up.
Speaking of potting, we drove by the stock yard of peat moss bags piled high from last summer's peat moss harvest. It is really amazing to see. We were on the expressway when I snapped these consecutive pictures. Next Spring semi trucks will line up to load and deliver to the garden centers across the nation.
I learned peat moss is the decayed plant canopy from over 10,000 years ago that was crushed & compressed by the mile deep glacier covering Michigan. Previous to that time, Michigan had a tropical climate.
A big reason why you are advised to wear a mask when using peat moss. You'd be inhaling particles of acient 'who knows what'. And, yes, they have found mastodon carcuses in amongst the peat.
