Plant Potatoes When Dandelions Bloom

I've been a black-nailed beauty this past week. As I planted 6 rows of potatoes (Rose Apple Finn fingerlings and Russets this year)-thanks to my lovely Mr. Workhorse, and rows of collards, radishes, various squashes, beets, carrots, and much more, I laughed as I remembered a pregnant woman who didn't hire me as her midwife (but still I ended up assisting that birth) because as she said, "You're small and I can't imagine you ever getting your hands dirty."
One, I am not "small" and two, my hands feel like they're only clean between November and March. It still kind of makes me twitch when I think of it, but oh well. Clearly, she didn't know the hands of which she spoke.
If it's not someone else's bodily fluids (and yes I wear gloves), then it's dirt, mud, compost and more. (I do not wear gloves in the garden!)

At any rate, I feel like we've gotten a lot accomplished over the past 5 days, including a couple of babies being born. :) I told G I just might have to be pregnant every summer to get out of all the shoveling and hoeing that I've been happily handing over to him.

That blue box thing is our first raised bed in the front yard. It may be the only one this year. The box itself is actually the old trundle bed S used to have under her old day bed. Before it was a trundle, it was actually her loft bed. That box of painted blue pine has been used in so many ways, it makes me happy to see it in the front yard full of dirt (and various herb seeds and Egyptian onions).

I was looking online at Fedco's tuber information page as I was reviewing potato planting information, and liked how they described when to plant potatoes: generally, when the dandelions are in bloom.
Perfect, I'll remember that simple sentence for life. I've not quite totally wrapped my lazy self around really getting to know soil temperatures. I figure when the ground isn't sopping wet and the dandelions are in bloom seems a fine time to plant.

We shall see.