We harvested our first new potatoes!

[greeneyedsadie]

I'm on the central coast of California (I don't know what growing zone that is, sorry ETA: Zone 10a?) and we are growing them in wine barrels from our local vineyards. They started dying a few days ago and we googled and found out that you harvest them when they die, so we dug up three plants and look we have potatoes!

Comments

[squid_ink]

can't say for sure... but radishes are cool weather crops. I grow them in the spring and fall and I'm on the border of zone 5 and 6.

[greeneyedsadie]

I live next to the sea, and the temperatures are in the 50s to 70s during the day most of the year. We might hit the 80s maybe 10 days out of the entire year.

I think we planted too many and didn't thin and they had nowhere to grow.

[squid_ink]

that does not sound like zone 10 to me. Not even close. You may want to edit your post to reflect your average temps.

[greeneyedsadie]

On wikipedia it based the zone on the minimum temp, which is the lowest temp it can get, right? The lowest temperature we get is about 30 at night during the winters. It had San Francisco as zone 10a and that's almost exactly the same. I was so confused trying to figure that out.

[conuly]

Unfortunately, the USDA zone map, while really useful on the East Coast, is less and less accurate in the middle of the country and on the West Coast.

[greeneyedsadie]

I figured it would sort of have to, and I picked 10a because we're very nearly identical to SF (We're just further south).