I planted today. Will I get full-size potatoes?
Michelle
Potatoes: Am i Too Late?
Although I am in a different zone, I would say you likely will. I did potatoes the first time last year, and planted them later than my neighbor. But i was not concerned with the size, only the flavor. I planted Alll Red and All Blue yesterday. What kind did you plant? Some varieties take longer than others...
All Blue & some kinda Purple.
Michelle
I tried last year to grow the things - I think every racoon in Dallas Co came and ate on the things - I did not find even a sigle one. Oh well there is joy in trying right?
uh... NO!
just kidding. I planted a bunch of sunchokes recently and went back about a week later and there was a big hole in it's place!
but I'm gonna try again.
Poor zipcode! At least the coons were well fed if that is any consolation! :-)
I don't know what a sunchoke is, but try covering it with a milk crate or something till it gets established.
Peruvian Purple maybe? The All Blue have better flaovr than purple IMHO. Especially sliced and fried. You can even eat them raw.
Good luck with potatoes and sunchokes.
If anybody still needs potatoes, I got mine from
http://www.milkranch.com
They have many kinds, including heirloom and organic.
Yup, that's the one!
I wanna make purple and blue potato salad!
Blue french fries would be cool, too, if they hold their color.
Michelle
The All Blue hold their color, don't know about the purple. We slice the blue like potato chips, sautee in olive oil...... yummmmmmmie
I grew the blue, all red, and kennebec last year, but neglected to make patriotic potato salad. I will probably do it this year though...
Potatoes are fun. A friend told me the other day he was planting some extras in a stack of tires. Why didn't I think of that? So when I am finished planting, and giving away extras, any more extras are going into a tire stack. That is even easier than the barrel method LOL
Where could I find these fun spuds this late the game? Why r u all doing this to me?
goto http://www.milkranch.com
I don't know about the experimenter's package, but you can buy as little as 1 pound of each of MANY varieties from Craig, and he has TONS of heirlooms and you have the option of Certified Organic or not, and he may still have some EATIN taters left for sale.
Theya re a great family owned farm, and i really enjoy doing business with them.
I got: Kerr's Pink, All Red, Cherry Red, Chipeta, Desire, All Blue, Yukon Gold, and one other I can't recall. I am a potato loving freak LOL. But still call me corny...
Thanks, Corny!
You lurker you, stop drooling and buy some potatoes for pete's sake!
That is quite a site, Fritch! Fascinating.
John~So glad you liked :-)
Sorry we hijacked your thread, Michelle. John just always has to be in the know, you know.
I was reaidng today about seed saving and came across info on how to choose which seed potatoes to use for growing next years seed potatoes, and where to plant them. If anyone is interested, I will look it up and typ it verbatim...
Tamara
The subject of seed potatoes would not be far off topic. Would it?
Yes, please! I wanna read it!
Michelle
I promise tomorrow evening :-)
Do you think it could be read by more if I started a new thread, maybe titled "Planting potatoes for seed potatoes"?
You can, but it will get plenty of reaiding of it rite heer. ;>)
:)
Yep.
Allright, I am heading to find the book... quoted from "The New Seed-Starters Handbook": (parentheses and emphasis mine)
Potatoes, Solanum tuberosum, annual. Seed potatoes are the tubers themselves, either large ones cut so that each piece has an eye or, preferably, small whole potatoes saved from last year's crop. Virus diseases of potatoes, usually trasnmitted by aphids, can be carried by the tubers into next year's plants. Prevention is easier than cure. Don't save seed potatoes from plants that exhibit such virus disease symptoms as curled or yellowed leaves.
Some gardeners reserve an end row for their seed potato crop, planting there all the many-eyed seed potatoes and pieces. They use seed potatoes with no more than two eyes, which will produce larger tubers, in the rows planted for eating. Other gardeners simply collect all the small potatoes that sift to the bottom as the family consumes the year's harvest and replant them next year as seed potatoes. Egg-sized potatoes are good for replanting. (for seed)
When harvesting a lot of potatoes strictly for seed purposes, cure them in the sun for a few hours. It doesn't matter if they turn green, as long as you don't intend to eat them. Potatoes keep best at 34 or 35 degrees F [1 or 2 degrees C]
This message was edited Apr 6, 2005 11:49 PM
Well maybe I will try again - so many colors so little room . . .
LOL...
opps sorry folks didn't know about that rule.
This message was edited Apr 17, 2005 6:03 PM
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