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Yesterday I went to my mom's and we harvested a row of 'Yukon Gold' potatoes. These were potatoes that she grew last year and she didn't get around to eating and found them sprouting in her root cellar this spring. We figured we may as well use them, so we planted them earlier this spring when we planted my sampler pack. They produced over 50lbs of potatoes!
I've grown carrots in the garden almost every year. Here at Chiot's Run they aren't very fond of the heavy lean soil and thus they don't get very large. As a result I generally grow the small round variety. In my mom's garden however, she's spent years amending the soil and it's now a deep rich loam that grows some of the most beautiful carrots you've ever seen.