I just checked the 10 day forecast – rain, thunderstorms, partly cloudy skies, then more rain.  About the only spring/summer annual vegetables that are really enjoying this weather are the potatoes, which around these parts are planted in early early spring.  I only plant them every couple of years.  One reason is that I typically forget to get seed stock, and the other is this sort of deeply-held (if ill-conceived – I’ve got nothing but space) notion I have about yield per acre, or in my case, yield per foot.  That is, potatoes take up a lot of space, but don’t yield all that much food.  The same is true for corn, which takes up a lot of space for comparatively little yield, and which is a water and nitrogen hog besides.

Back to the potatoes – they’re looking lovely.  I bought the seed potatoes in February or so, and put them in a paper bag at the back of a dark cabinet, promptly forgetting about them.  When finally I remembered that they were there, I pulled the bag out to discover that even in the absence of basically any light, they had developed multiple 12″ shoots from every eye, and these were clawing their way out of the bag.  The potatoes themselves were withered and spent.  I planted them anyway – potatoes are pretty tough – digging a trench and working in the best of the compost.  Within a week those shoots had greened up and started developing proper leaves.  They’re looking great today.