When to Harvest Potatoes?
In general, when the potato plants begin to yellow, thats time. To be sure, you could always check. Also, I left mine in too long this year and some of them began to rot. I live in zone 8b, though, so hot for me is probably not hot for you! Good luck.
Keeping Birds from Eating Figs
I cant beat the birds to the figs, because they start to eat the ones that are almost ripe, and leave nothing left! I put socks over the figs that are ripening. Cant tell if this prevents the fig from ripening, though. Im going to try some of the hanging things...
