We started digging sweet potatoes. Hooray! Although it arrived over a week ago, the soil has been too wet to try out our new digger. And while it’s still pretty damp out there, we were able to give it a go early this week. Monday and Tuesday we dug four of our ten beds of sweet potatoes. The digger makes a huge difference. It still takes a couple hours per bed to go through the soil and collect up all the sweet potatoes, but it is faster and so much easier and more pleasant than that we were doing before. Emphasis on pleasant. It was a real bear of a job before. We have harvested close to 2,000 lbs thus far.
Unfortunately, the dry weather will not be holding out and the rest of the sweet potato harvest will have to wait. We are expecting rain overnight Tuesday and all day Wednesday. Another case of hurry up and wait. And although it has been dry enough to dig sweet potatoes, it has not been dry enough to shape beds for spring or for the strawberry plants that are due to arrive in about a week.
I’d write more, but the rain is headed this way. I am about to go try and move the goats to fresh pasture before it rains. And maybe try and fence in the eleven “free range” goats that are currently grazing around the house, having escaped from their paddocks earlier.
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