Welcome! This is a great place to hang out -- and no one complains if you're still sweaty & stinky, fresh from the garden. ;-)

Diane

So glad you have decided to chime in! Sounds like your garden is going pretty well.

I have a number of volunteer Yukon Gold plants. Yesterday I accidentally unearthed a small tuber. Looks like they are producing well, though mine have never been very large.

George
Tahlequah, OK

You will find this is a great garden family. Sit down and enjoy. Jay

I love Yukon Gold, but in my experience they are always smaller than the Kennebecs and even than the Red Pontiacs. But the flavor...mmm..mmm. And you may have jumped the gun a bit on digging them. In a normal year we dig potatoes 4th of July weekend and later, and this year is not normal. Everything is late for me too. I always just wait until the vines are pretty much dead but still visible.

So welcome to the site. We look forward to hearing more from you. Dawn and George are the ones to ask anything about heirloom veggies. George does a bit of everything and Dawn is the tomato expert although she does lots of other stuff too. I raise asparagus, broccoli and Sugar Snap peas, all of which some people have problems with.

Quailhunter,

Welcome to the forum. I'm glad you decided to stop lurking and start posting too. This is a great online gardening community and we have a lot of fun here when we aren't lurching from one weather-related gardening disaster to another.

My potatoes are late this year, but I had to replant 3 times. Extremely late freezes took out most of the potatoes twice and few resprouted after the second freeze, so I replanted. Then a flood of rainfall.....12" in less than 24 hours....took out a lot more, so I replanted again. At this point, I don't even know what I have growing in the potato beds any more, so it will be "surprise" time when the plants die and I get to dig. To me, the hardest thing in the world is to wait for the vines to die back completely and then finally dig and I really have to resist the urge to dig too early. I've got potatoes sprouting in the pantry now for the fall crop.

You'll find many experienced veggie gardeners here with whom to discuss growing veggies....and herbs....and fruit and flowers, and we have lots of members who have lots of flowers and lots of lovely landscaping too.

I'd just like to point out that George (Macmex) is very knowledgeable about all kinds of veggies--esp. the heirlooms, and Jay (Elkwc) grows so many kinds of heirloom tomatoes and peppers that he makes me look like a "beginner" or "dabbler". Jay also has the worst gardening conditions, with lots of heat and wind and little rain. Dorothy gets the prize for the biggest garden and she's extremely experienced and grows some of almost everything. Diane has a huge garden too and we love hearing about the crops it produces and all the help the kids give her. We have other veggie gardeners too, who may not post as often, but we know they are "here".

I have the same kinds of onions you do, plus Texas 1015Ys. I don't think I'll have a great crop because that 12" of rain waterlogged them for too long, but they aren't doing too badly all things considered. I have so many onions in the freezer from last year that it won't be a big deal if our harvest is smaller than usual this year.

With all the rain, I know one thing for sure: here in Love County we are raising a healthy crop of mosquitoes. They're the size of small aircraft.

Dawn