Tater Tots

This year, I didn't plant a veggie garden - I was still enjoying the Swiss chard that was booming along in the garden from the previous year and the pot of healthy herbs growing on the front steps, so I figured that was enough - and I was feeling lazy.

I had a pretty good-sized unplanted pot, however, filled with good soil and chicken poop, just begging to be asked to dance. So, when I noticed that one of my organic russet potatoes in the fridge had started to grow eyes, I made a split-second decision to farm after all. I cut the spud in four pieces, each containing an eye, and shoved them down equidistant from each other into the soil about 1" deep.

Nothing happened. I waited and watched and watered, but nothing happened. I finally shrugged and gave up, figuring I should have gotten certified "seed potatoes" as all the online advice suggested. Oh, well, no big loss.

Then, just this past weekend as I strolled by that pot, I stopped to pluck a little weed that had started and just look what I found! Three tiny potato plants poking up through the soil and spreading tight little green leaves to the sun! My sprouts seem to be doing well and I'm already dreaming of the harvest come fall when the green parts die back. I'll have to go back online and find out what else I should be doing to encourage my little tater tots.