The Buttes, In the Beginning

I've been watching 'volunteers' spring up in last year's potato bed for the last two weeks, which means I wasn't so thorough harvesting last year's batch in the dusk. But it was a lesson learned (don't harvest potatoes after dark). The Buttes I planted two weeks ago are pushing up just a hair later than the ones leftover in the soil, which makes me think it's a fine time for them to be getting started. If I didn't have onions and leeks already planted in the bed of volunteer potatoes and wasn't worried about rotating the crops in my vegetable beds, I would have liked to watch those volunteers grow and see which plants produced better, this year's new seed or last year's.