On Saturday, March 11, 2017 at 8:17:28 PM UTC-8, Joy Beeson wrote:
On Sat, 11 Mar 2017 12:39:33 +0700, John B.
wrote:

Don't you dig the potatoes when they are
large enough to eat and plant them in the spring?

This *is* the spring. I planted them a couple of weeks ago. One is
supposed to plant on St. Patrick's Day, but it's possible to store
potatoes in the garden all winter -- I often find volunteers that have
overwintered with no help from me.

I had three potatoes with sprouts on them, and thought that they
wouldn't keep until planting time, so I'm storing them where they are
supposed to grow.

This is the first year that I've had the opportunity to plant at the
proper time -- in upstate New York, I couldn't even *find* my garden
in mid-March -- and the proprietor at Open Air Garden Center told me
that onion sets and seed potatoes won't be available until mid-April.
Pout. But I can set the multipliers (winter-hardy shallots) out. I've
also already planted some multipliers that I feared wouldn't keep
lying on a concrete floor. (I'd intended to eat them.) I have two
half-pint baskets of multipliers stored in a cupboard, in layers of
crumpled paper. (No cellar here. One spring the water table was
inside our heating ducts for a few days.)

I was told that Basil is a perennial but I have never gotten one to return in the spring. Apparently I got incorrect information. And while Rosemary is a perennial you must have to cut them back heavily since mine is the same of a small tree.

I don't have enough room for anything but an orange and a lemon tree so my vegetables come from the supermarket or sometimes from the farmer's market's. Though it looks to me like the farmer's market is trying to sell the rejects from the supermarkets.