Here are a couple of pics of my potatoe plants.  I built a ring out of chicken wire around the plant and I will fillit with compost ever week or two as the plant grows so that it will produce it's potatoes above the ground which will make it easier to harvest them.  This is one of the larger potatoe plants, some of the others still haven't sprouted.

Compost

I got two yards of compost today and started to put it around the vegetables in the garden.  The compost consists of leaves, branches and other yard waste that has been composted for over 8 months.   

The sun is finally out.

The plants have been growing really slowly, hopefully with the warmer weather and sun this week the plants will start to take off.  However, even with the cold and wet weather a few of the veggies have started to bolt.  I am also facing some problems with rodents, as voles have been eating some of the squash plants and something (i think rats) has gnawed a hole into the chicken coop and started eating the eggs and chicken feed.  Dr. Roger Baldwin has given me some suggestions on how to erradicate the vermin so I will let everyone know how that goes.

The last row.

I put in the last row yesterday(In the rain).  As soon as my transplants that I started from seed are ready I will plant them in that row.  There is still some space above the last row for possibly one more row, however it is fairly steep.  Instead of a row I am going to plant some plants that will take up a lot of space and not need to be in a row such as watermellon and squash, that way I won't have to worry about erosion as much either.

The potatoes have sprouted!

The potatoes have finally sprouted.  It has been almost 3 weeks since I have planted them.  I guess the cooler than usual weather has slowed them down a bit.  I planted Yukon gold and Adirondak Blue, both are early season varieties that should be ready starting in May.  As soon as these plants get a little bit bigger I am going to put chicken wire rings around them and cover the lower half of the plant with a light compost.  I am hoping that this will encourage the potatoes to put tubers above the soil making it possible to harvest the seedlings by hand, and hopefully without having to pull each plant when I harvest them.