Hej Gunnar!
Growing potatoes from TPS is exciting project, but it is not for people with short attention span. I have grown TPS plants now during two summers, so I am just a total novice with this compared to Tom, who knows everything from creating and collecting the seeds to successful growing and much much more.
Because the gardening season up here is so short I have kept the TPS plants in containers the first year. I have not eaten any of the first season tubers. Second season is in ground trial and then we did taste testing.
I have been growing Peruvian Purple from seed potatoes I grew in Wisconsin and brought with me when we moved back to Finland. This variety requires longer season than we have here and I have been looking for an other purple one, which would grow here better. So far none of the TPS, I have grown, has produced purple tubers, so it will be interesting to see what kind of results you will get with the Russian Blue.
Two more weeks and days will start getting longer and I will get itchy for starting seeds.
Hälsningar från Vasa,
Sari
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