Radish haul and potatoes in the dark

 It's been raining and cold here for what seems like forever now.  Most of this week, anyway.  I am concerned because things just don't seem to be taking off the way they should ~ not enough warmth to grow and too much rain.  But I digress....
Last week was a nice week.  Finally got the rest of the garden planted (except for the horseradish, which will go in large pots in the potato patch).   I even got a small flower bed planted (finally!) but no pictures yet as I finished it in the dark and it started raining that night and hasn't stopped yet.  We also had an "incident" with a neighbor's large animal (we think it was a cow).  I went up into the garden one day to find huge hoof prints through every. single. garden.  All three.  And not just one or two on the edge, but a nice meander through every damn patch!  I was just sick.  Huge hoof prints right through the cucumbers that I had planted the previous day (which are now up, I might add...take that, you damn animal!), in my baby basil, in the corn, in the potatoes, you name it, it was tromped through.  I felt vandalized.  Violated.  Pissed off.  I almost cried.  In the end, I sighed, replanted the baby basil that was in the hoof print divot, pulled up the corn that had been trashed, tried to rescue the squash that had been stepped on, recovered the potatoes, replanted the tomatoes that had been torn up, hoped for the best for the cucumber and other seeds that hadn't yet sprouted, and am hoping that it won't happen again. 

The potato patch mentioned above isn't the three rows we planted early on, it's the "new" potato patch - 200 square feet with 50 lb. of seed potatoes that should yield about 4,000 lb if all goes well.   We were out planting until 9 pm one day last week to get them in the ground before it rained again

In this pic you can see the first row going in and the rest of the rows ready.  It just got too dark to take any more pictures.  By the time we were done it was tough to see well enough to cover the last of the rows and we had to go back and check the next morning to make sure they were all covered.  They were, but all this rain has exposed some of them so as soon as it stops raining and things dry out a little I'm going to have to go get them covered back up again.  I tell ya', this weather is nuts.

Also last week I had the first moderately big haul of radishes

The French Breakfast radishes have finally taken off, and the Philadelphia White Box are just crazy!  The Cincinnati Market are still not as plentiful but they are coming along.  Here's a good photo of one of each

And here's the cleaned haul

Close ups of each
Philly White Box:

 Cincinnati Market:

 French Breakfast:

As you can see, they've been cleaned and topped.  That's because we were gonna' EAT them!  The Philly White Box are still my favorites raw but I did actually saute the French Breakfast in butter and salt and, lemme tell ya'..... omg!  Delicious!  If you can get your hands on some, give it a try.  I halved or quartered them lengthwise and used about a tablespoon of butter and a generous pinch of salt for the amount you see here and I now have a new favorite way to eat radishes!  I just can't go on enough - I loved them!  Now I can't wait to try that lovely recipe I shared with you before, with the tarragon..... and am kicking myself that I didn't plant tarragon this year!  Next year, for sure.