Potatoes! (I have very original titles for my blog posts)

 This is my first year doing potatoes, hopefully I don't screw it up.

First, you cut all the potatoes bigger than a golf ball in half, making sure there are eyes on each part.

Mountain Rose potatoes

Even the eyes are pretty

 Then you let them sit and form a scab on the cut part for a couple days.

Pre-scab

Then you shove them in the ground, mound the dirt weekly and pray.

Potato plants around some carrots

Then you do some optimistic exploring in the dirt several weeks before the potatoes should be harvested because you have OCD and just want to make sure they are coming along...
 

YES

Then you eat the crap out of the little things and promise not to pick the rest until they are truly ready.

Sour cream and chives from the garden. Yum.

Then you also make some pasta with leeks from the garden because, why not?