Your dinner sounds delicious. On our South Dakota farm we planted
potatoes on St. Patrick's Day. All of them. I remember some cold days as we planted a large area at the end of one of the fields.

I quit growing potatoes many, many years ago when I had problems with potato scab. Still buy new potatoes from the Farmers' Market but agree there are none so tasty as those first ones from ones own garden.

I have been hilling/hoeing my taters and have accidentally unearthed little spuds. I had no idea there were little spuds so early. They have not even started flowering yet although the heat units right now is perfect for flowering. I planted conservatively to reduce risk of frost. It was early May I think.

I could not resist so today I dug up a hill of Kennebec white and a hill of Yukon Gold. Got a bunch of nice 2 to 2 1/2 inch taters from each. I was pleasantly surprised that they were larger than the Pontiacs. The next variety I check will be the Russian Banana fingerlings. No Russet Burbanks will be dug early because I want all the good-sized potatoes I can get for steak fries and bakers.

Can potatoes be planted late (now?) and harvested in the fall? I have never grown them, but you have my mouth watering.

Can potatoes be planted late (now?) and harvested in the fall? I have never grown them, but you have my mouth watering.

My philosophy is When in doubt, plant. I think you could still get some potatoes going. Last year I planted my entire crop in the third week of June because of the wet spring and got a fair crop - enough to last through most of last winter.

I wonder where you will find seed potatoes, though. I guess you could always try using store-bought food potatoes...

You could always check out farmers markets for some fresh new eating potatoes this year and plan on planting a crop next year. :)