One potato, two potatoes, No potatoes

Well… what we thought were potatoes coming up weren’t potatoes at all. I still think they’ll be up soon but the seedlings we saw actually turned out to be maple trees. Those whirly seeds end up all over the place. I had tried picking them out of the containers but some obviously made it into the dirt. Or the squirrels buried them in the container. They do like to try to bury things in the containers. Cleaning them out I’ve found peanuts and even a walnut.