Potatoes in a Bucket...the conclusion

So after our really lame harvest of the potatoes in a bucket , I had high hopes for the potatoes in a trash can.  Looks, promising, right?

 So after dumping out the dirt, onto a tarp, in small batches, picking through it, and then putting the dirt in the garden...

(Oooh, it looks so pretty)

Here is our harvest of potatoes from the trashcan:

Huh.  Well.  That was weird. Maybe we'll try one more time next year.  Or not.  They were tasty little potatoes though--I made them into homemade potato salad--yum!