I Ordered Seed Potatoes Today!/Update Post #56/Harvest pg 7

nachoqtpie

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ninnymary said:
nacho, spell s..t..a..k..e..s

Mary
:lol:

And here I thought I was a decent speller. I guess I never thought that they were spelled differently! *gets out dunce cap*
 

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Well, I have to grow blue potatoes now after reading all this. I had red red potatoes, regular red and white last year. My daughter said I can have blue as long as I have red red again. I am going to have sweet potatoes too. I really do not have enough room for white if I grow sweet potatoes.
 

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Gardening with Rabbits said:
Well, I have to grow blue potatoes now after reading all this. I had red red potatoes, regular red and white last year. My daughter said I can have blue as long as I have red red again. I am going to have sweet potatoes too. I really do not have enough room for white if I grow sweet potatoes.
It depends on what your potato season is. I plant potatoes in mid February and harvest in mid to the end of May. That is the perfect time to plant sweet potatoes. Then I harvest the sweet potatoes and plant turnips. I get 3 crops a year from one spot! (my garden is in the front yare planted in beds-space is at a premium around here) White, red, purple potatoes are a cool season crop here, sweet potatoes love the blistering heat and thrive in it. So maybe you can grow both!
 

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I would just like to say:

That you get 1 more crop out of your garden bed than I do, Bay'. People who grew up in climates with much longer growing seasons than here - DW & Dad - have joked about my success in growing sweet potatoes in the garden. The plants took the entire season but I thought they did okay. There were some for the table . . .

If I grow an early variety of Irish potato, I can harvest in August and sow seed for Bok Choy. Bok Choy is in the turnip family, so I'm doing about the same as a gardener in Southeast Texas . . . without the sweet potatoes. Luckily, there are some at the market and winter squash isn't a whole lot different.

Steve
 
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