Yet Another Gulag Garden Miracle!

About a week ago I bought a half dozen rainbow Swiss chard plantlets. They were starting to go a bit pale in the kitchen window so tonight I decided to plant them - somewhere or the other. I decided the only spot available was where the seed Viking Blue Potatoes I planted some months ago had fried - in a black planting sack. So! I started to pull up the dead, withered, decrepit & spent potato plants. I found an acorn planted by an annoying squirrel *grumble*. Then something else, small and round surfaced - an ensie, fat, purplish baby potato. HOLY MOTHER OF GULAGS! Digging around I pulled up another dozen small potatoes! I GREW POTATOES!

I can't believe those seed potatoes set roots so quickly!

I know it is no big deal to most, that the cut up potato eyes I planted some months ago, grew potatoes. I mean, I wasn't exactly expecting to plant pototes and grow onions or baby bulldogs or anything, yet the whole process remains to me; yet another Gulag Garden miracle.

So, feeling empowered, I re-planted the baby potatoes and watered them a bit. Last night I had pre-wet the soil so perhaps that is why the baby potatoes seemed so... so... hopeful, so eager to grow. We'll see. I also planted the Swiss chard in a second planting bag. I might just grow some veggies this fall/winter. WEEEE!

Humm... wonder if I planted them the correct side up?