So, I said I'd ripped out the old pea vines - and just let them lay by the raised bed (can we say, lazy enough to let them lay). Yesterday when I went to pick some green beans in another bed, I spotted some green in the old nasty looking pile of the pea vines. Guess what? The green is new peas shooting up! Must have been some pods with old enough seeds inside. Kinda late, but I am going to let them try - never know, might get a pea or two to eat before the freeze.
Also, I had mentioned that my little trees were now safe from deer - wrong!! One must have walked through a very thick planting of several tomatoes and totally munched off one of the paperbark birches. Very wierd though, as nothing else was trampled or eaten. I'm sure I didn't eat it, but it surely is only a thin stick now, about 1 foot tall. The others are ok and I added some twine around the tomatoes to help keep other munchers out.
Yesterday while it was sunny, I went to check on the potato vines I saw in the compost pile all summer. We have a large two compartment compost bin and two potatoes grew at the center divider, with very lush growth (why wouldn't they, being in the compost pile!). So, here is the results of digging down quite a ways. All these from just two plants! We figured about 20 lbs. total. Yummy! There was one more plant along the back side but there were only 6 smallish ones there.
