small potatoes

are fine with me...results are results at this point in the winter...the yema de huevos in one of the baskets had died back thoroughly and so i dug for tubers this morning and...hey presto! spuds...small as they may be ( and the crop i brought in from outside weren't exactly huge ) they will sprout and that is what matters at this point...nine so far...there are a couple of plants that haven't died back completely but i do believe i will be digging them today anyway...in the course of the harvest i found three larger and very soft tubers that basically collapsed as i dug them out...this has me worried about viruses so i will dig the remaining plants today ...i brought in a frozen forty pound chunk of compost from the back of my truck ( it is minus two faherenheit outside my house right now ) and as soon as it thaws i will be replacing the soil in one basket to replant the harvest...that compost can go out in the yard come spring removed from any potato patch i plant...or, perhaps, i will just dump it in the compost bin for a bit of heat sterilization before it gets run through any plants...if i can produce another crop of tubers under the light these spuds will go out into the gardens ( since we are intercropping in the community garden some will find a home there and there hasn't been a potato in the perennial garden project ( and they are perennials ) in a number of years and i am inclined to think it is time..they are smallish potatoes and ancestors of yukon golds ( an ancestor domesticate/domesticate comparison? we grew yukon golds in the community garden very successfully in the community garden last season...something to consider since i have a reliable local source of yukons....more on the replant and the rest of the potato projects as the compost thaws...parts of the 2014 season are coming together...happy holidays everyone.