Spring Planting

A couple of weeks ago I planted our spring garden.  The squash are now up, as well as some of the onions.  No sign of the green beans yet.  One of our bell pepper transplants is already growing a pepper, and I am thinking, "Your a mite small for that, aren't you?"  I have some teeny tiny patio tomato transplants that my daughter-in-law sowed from their patio tomatoes from last year.  I have a pot for them on the back porch once they get a bit bigger.
  
My big new experiment this year is potatoes.  With wanting to put more energy into our vegetable garden, I decided to reduce the number of decorative plants on our front porch.  The shift freed up two very large containers.  With potatoes being more of a staple in my diet now, I decided to see if I could grow some.  We moved the containers to the back porch so they could get plenty of sun.  I planted three potatoes in each pot.  As they grow dirt is mounded around the base of the plant until it reaches the top of the container.  Once the potatoes plants start to bloom you can begin harvesting a little at a time, or wait until the plant dies back and harvest the whole crop at once. So far so good.