A Volunteer... Potato?

Compost Bin With Potatoes

We knew that potatoes like plenty of compost, but we didn't realize that they like it so much they would seek out the compost bin and root there, but we found exactly that the other day.

Mere feet away from these hardy volunteers are the pampered potato plants that Cindy has lavished attention on for months now, carefully starting them, then transplanting the seedlings to the grow bags inside Fortress Blueberry, where she periodically rolls up the sides of the grow bags to add more potting soil so the plant will produce more potatoes.

Those potato plants are currently looking like they are struggling a bit; since they are cool weather plants, it may be getting a bit warm for them now, although that doesn't seem to have bothered the volunteers.

Healthy Looking Volunteers