There are many onions still to harvest...
...but we are making headway on the potatoes. While I know others keep their potatoes in the ground until they are ready to consume them (or at least until fall), we discovered last year that, once the grasshoppers devour the leaves, the stems quickly rot and disappear, and soon after follow our buried potatoes. A portion of our crop had already rotted after only an extra two weeks in the ground, so once the stem is bare, we harvest!
First, we harvested Red Norland potatoes. Several days later, we followed with our Yukon Gold harvest. With 165+ pounds harvested and an entire bed to go, it's anyone's guess as to how much is left. There will be several varieties, red and white skinned, waiting like buried treasure.
97 pounds of onions have been pulled. Some could have waited, but when our time is needed on so many different fronts, it is not practical to pick and choose out of a row. Once most of the row is laying down, we harvest. I'd refer to wait until the leaves brown, but it is not possible for us to check every day, as no one lives on
Purgatory Ranch just yet.
Of the onions, we have pulled all the Red Candy, Red Burgundy, and Sweet Granex. All that remains is the Candy. There are PLENTY of those, and still growing!
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