Wednesday I got out there and dug these beauties. I got two full laundry baskets, or (I think) 80 lbs. Which seems like too much, but remember, it's all really just water. There are some nice big ones there, just like my friend Cindy's, who gives me the slips to plant. Hooray! Lots of water is the key, I think, as well as planting them close together without any fertilizer.
This bed also had a good amount of sand in it -- not too hard to dig them out. In contrast to the cabbage beds, which are quite compacted.
It's quite a treasure hunt to dig these amazingly BIG roots out of the ground. Now they are curing in the basement with heat and humidity. I need to store them more carefully than last year, too, since I had most of the little ones rot away. Oh, well.
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