just about the last of the back yard spuds

with the exception of a volunteer russet that sprang up in last year's potato patch and hasn't quite finished yet and two plants in containers, the 2014 potato crop is pretty much in...these ollalas and red pontiacs were out in the outer reaches and got as much shade as sun ( you can tell by the small size of most of them )...but they were done and so i dug...a bout two pounds worth which takes the harvest total to the vicinity of twenty-four pounds...not too shabby for a suburban yard with a plethora of trees...i see a lot of drops ( and some solanine ) in this batch...especially among the ollalas which will allow me to expand my planned propagation this winter...new, broader spectrum bulbs have arrived and i do believe a couple of fixtures will be next on the list of hardware...i have planted some spuds for this project already but i think i will be storing these away in an indirectly lit, cool basement until they start chitting and then go for a planting...we can do some harvest comparisons as they come in over the winter and we head into spring...gardening is an all weather, year round sport...more as these things come up.