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The year has been one of the lightest years of gardening I have had since planting my first ’solo’ garden in 1993. My raised bed is full of poke weed, although we always referred to it as poke salad, which was also the name of one of my favorite childhood songs, “Poke Salad Annie.” And I’m not even going to lie, Elvis did it best.

At any rate, I did manage to dig a little plot for some potatoes. And I put a few peppers and a single pumpkin in my flower garden. And, aside from a couple of emergency waterings when we were desert dry in Atlanta, I didn’t do anything to the potato plants. And sometimes that’s best.

I was out in the yard with the dogs yesterday and noticed a potato on top of the ground. And then I saw several of them. Apparently they were done. I dug around and grabbed a couple of pounds and cooked them for breakfast. It doesn’t get more fresh than that.

From the looks of it, I’m going to get about 30-40 pounds of potatoes from a small plot no bigger than 10 square feet. My pepper plants are over 3′ tall and have more peppers than I can pick and my lone pumpkin is just starting to thrive. Maybe next year I’ll have more time for a vegetable garden and Molly can help me with the planting.

My broccoli, kale and spinach seeds will be here soon and I look forward to digging up the poke salad and planting my fall garden.

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