2022 Root Crops (end of season notes)

Beets were very good – do again with insect screen and thinning protocol.
Daikon did okay, but would have liked to be planted sooner and thinned more like turnips to reach full size.
Jerusalem Artichokes in same location for second year, strong plants with 2 sets of blooms again, but a disappointing harvest. Perhaps replant with fresh stock next spring in a different location.
Potatoes all did well, had to cut seed potatoes into many pieces, potato beetles not as bad this year, best yield from blue, then purple, gold came out a week earlier which worked out well for planting the cabbage seedlings.
Rutabagas very good, do again.
Salad Turnips – spring crop did great, with 3-weeks to second planting being perfect; fall crop did great but could have also been two plantings next year.
Sweet Potatoes were less vigorous than usual with fewer flowers but produced well, harvested early to avoid predation, seedlings not planted had critter damage before coming to the garden.