No Potato

I noticed potato barrel didn't seem to have that much green growing out of the top. Curiosity got the best of me so I dug into the barrel a bit and didn't find anything. I didn't want to wait the rest of the way through the season if there weren't some potatoes in there so I dump that bucket and found nothing except potatoes I put in there. They were liquefied to the point they were like goo. It was quite fascinating actually. So the Solanum tuberosum barrel was a no-go. I wonder if I should let the plants flower before I covered them again. I think I'm going to continue to wonder because I'm done with potato barrels. I am going to get seed potatoes next year and do a more traditional planting.