potato harvest
Digging up tubers
The potato harvest is the seasonal gathering of potatoes from the ground, typically in late summer or fall.
The term refers both to the activity and its yield: We helped with the potato harvest or This year's potato harvest exceeded expectations.
In agricultural regions, potato harvest historically meant school closings and community labor.
- spudPotato, colloquially
- root vegetableEdible subterranean plant part
- digUnearth by shoveling
- fieldArea of specialty
- tractorAgricultural pulling vehicle
soil · burlap · burlap sack · bushel · root · earth · muddy · autumn · farmer · yield · crop · crop rotation · cellar · sack · shovel · furrow · blight · starch
- tuber farmingcassava
potato harvestplanting season
planting · spring planting · seedtime · sowing · sowing season
potato harvestcrop failure
When fields yield nothing
potato blight · failed harvest · famine · scarcity · potato famine
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