solanum

the photos don't really provide an accurate comparison because the perspectives are different...but the largest potato in the top photo is about as big as the smallest in the second...sol is part of the root for the taxonomy for the potato family and there is probably some solid reasoning in that...the top photo is of potatoes that grew in the bed in the southwest corner of the garden...shaded for part of the day by the tree back there...the potatoes in the second photo ( along with a cuke and some unpictured goodies i left for a friend ) are from a plant ( a yukon gold ) grown in the sweet corn bed which got more sun...so the plant spent less energy providing itself with enough leaf surface for photosynthesis and put more work into tubers...more sun = more produce...we can't grow potatoes in that back bed again next year anyway so there will be a more shade adapted plant there next season...the rest of the garden is good...sweet corn, egg plant, and tomatoes all doing well..we are fortunate in all of this...we have also worked at it...perhaps producing our own good fortune...more as it comes up.