Information and discussion for successfully cultivating potatoes, the world's fourth largest crop.
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May 11, 2011 | #16 | |
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May 12, 2011 | #17 |
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Just got done planting 91 potato varieties with Tom Wagner at my home, along with a dozen azul Toro starts! I am so excited, can't wait to see all the diversity, as well as produceing some TPS to work from at well. THANKS AGAIN TOM FOR THE GREAT START!
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May 12, 2011 | #18 |
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Hi Doug! Well ...where are the pictures?
I think this potato season is going to be excellent with so many people getting the hands dirty planting different varieties. I started to look at recipes for what to do with so many different kinds. I probably host a potato tasting
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May 13, 2011 | #19 | |
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Montanez, we seem be a threesome with Salix si Will follow your ideas too. Thank you both Salix I have dwarfs germinated now. XX Jeannine |
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May 13, 2011 | #20 |
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Sorry Wendy no pics. We were doing it while keeping an eye on my almost 3 year old. He watched us mess with potatoes for 6 hours without a complaint! I was very proud of him to say the least. I will have plenty of patch/harvest pics up soon enough.
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May 13, 2011 | #21 |
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I've grown potatoes for many years, but this is the first year to grow Tom's seeds... I have about a dozen that sprouted so far and I need to know how to handle them..
Do I treat them like tomatoes? Repot them with true leaves into compost and peat mixture and at what point do I plant them into the garden? Thanks for any help ...
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May 13, 2011 | #22 |
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Get as much stem and leaves under the mix as possible, and because the seedlings are wimpy and fall over while still pretty small (so need to be transplanted while still pretty small) I plant them deep in drinking cups and back fill as they grow larger. They seem to beef up quickly after transplant. They go into the garden when about the same size as tomato plants and get planted fairly deep (or trenched).
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May 13, 2011 | #23 |
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Thanks TZ, I have never tried it before and didn't know what to expect....
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May 20, 2011 | #24 |
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Done! 560 row feet of potatoes planted. 90% are TPS, plus a few tubers and several pulled shoots. Was going to take pics but got rained out. Already had to hill up a couple of rows.
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May 20, 2011 | #25 |
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And I thought my 320' was alot! Now I am just planting rooted sprout pulls, all over in my landscapeing.I'm even planting them in some little clearings out in the woods.
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May 20, 2011 | #26 |
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That's a lot of potatoes! You are not backyard gardeners are you? Or do you guys have a CSA? If I were to transform my raise bed plantings plus TPS to rows probably will end up with 80ft row and having an average of 2lb/plant gives me 160lbs and it is beyond my imagination what to do with all that. I am dusting off cookbooks to learn potato recipes this fall
I am still wanting to see pictures of all that in bloom. Right now after all the rain I got 15 about half of all the plants above the soil line from the seed potatoes. A line of TPS seedlings waiting transplanting...too many
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May 20, 2011 | #27 |
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Nearly all of my tuber sprouts are up and I did a bit of hilling (trench filling?) yesterday to keep ahead of the weeds. I have a long handled three prong claw thing that lets me work in tight. My few sizable TPS seedlings are outside hardening off and will probably go into big containers. The germination inhibitors in the seed is so uneven (first year) that rewetting the initial pot set off a new round of seed sprouting.
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May 20, 2011 | #28 | |
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Just backyard gardeners, yes. We have six kids, though -- with bottomless pits for stomachs. I want to make sure that we get to eat some (a lot!) and save some for next year's garden.
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May 22, 2011 | #29 |
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I try to produce all of my families food needs and potatoes are just a start! We have tomatoes,beets,onions,carrots,peas, salsify, squash, radishes,and yacon going. Beans will be planted here next week (pre-germinated and inoculated) as well as cabbage and a few other things. We freeze,dry, and can alot....I am also growing a little plot of grain, and will try to feed all our animals as well. We raise rabbits and chickens for meat/eggs/fur/feathers as well as venison and a couple beaver a year. Maybe get an elk down this year if I get the time. I plan to can alot of potatoes this year as well as regular cellar storage.
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May 23, 2011 | #30 |
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hi vignut can you explain me the way to cann potatoes? realy news to this way of preserve it!
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