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Whoa - disconnect.
Okay, first the pool. It's an above ground seasonal pool and we store it in the garage (usually). They're good for about three seasons before the lining starts to deteriorate. A mouse took a nibble out of it this past winter so I had to patch it, but it held up. I think the filter is shot but I'm not going to worry about that until spring. It is raining now so I'm glad we got it put away yesterday.
The potato bed is still quite workable soil-wise. The girls started digging them yesterday and we apparently had a REALLY healthy crop. They usually keep us stocked until at least February and I used blue potatoes from last year's crop along with a small bag of "seed potatoes" from the local nursery. This is probably the latest in the year we've dug them but it just hasn't been that cold. The blue potatoes make the most wonderful mashed potatoes you'll ever see, and they're creamy and sweet.
We got a shitload of onions as well, but the girls pulled those up about two months ago. Weird growing season though. The peppers did better than I've ever seen and I guessed right that the tomatoes were going to be a bitch because of the wet spring so we didn't plant heirloom varieties. We got a lot of them, especially the cherry style, but not anywhere close to what we usually get. The pattypan squash went ballistic and we've still got a bunch of 6" diameter ones. Unlike most summer squash, those keep well at room temperature for MONTHS! Rabbits ate all the bean and pea sprouts but we did get a lot of radishes and my wife's herb garden went nuts this summer. The asparagus had a short but profoundly productive season and then became its usual fairy forest. Damn the ferns are pretty, especially when the berries turn red.
There are still more potatoes to dig up, but that's going to have to wait until at least Thursday because of the weather. Bummer. We don't actually need more rain right now.
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