At the end of February, garden keepers planted just 6 sprouted potato buds. By The end of March, we had lush green plants. And by the end of May, Florence advised us that it was time to harvest our potatoes.

GROWING HINTS:

• plant potato buds deep
• cover potato buds with mounds of dirt and hay as they grow

In June, the old potato bed was dug up and compost added to plant squash there next. Found a few more potatoes! Good finds!

That was a good place to plant them - and people really took care to water that bed.

HARVEST HINTS:

• Keep the potatoes out of sunlight
• It only takes 15 minutes exposure for that green skin to develop, which is toxic to eat
• Peel off the green part and still eat the potato
• Don't leave potatoes out on the bed to "cure" - you bring them into shade right away

Contributed by Naba, Grace and Florence