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

[thistlebloom]

They look great! I'm looking forward to getting my potato shipment next week.

They won't go in until the first of May.

I'll be planting and you'll probably be harvesting!

 

[lesa]

Wow! They look fabulous! I am super jealous... that is what I thought those trenches would like, before I saw the flood! French fries, home fries, baked, mashed, canned, potato salad...let me count the ways. Enjoy!

 

[897tgigvib]

Will you be able to do a double season of potatoes down there?

 

[baymule]

Marshall, a friend of mine and I did an experiment last year. After I harvested in May, I planted about a dozen eyes. They came up, made vines, but never produced potatoes before the summer heat wiped them out. My friend planted potatoes in September and they made a respectable showing before frost wiped them out in December. The best time to plant potatoes here is mid February, although a late frost a week ago burned a lot of my friends potatoes. They will sprout back out, but they got frosted. (mine didn't)

Thistlebloom, yes, I'll be harvesting just a little past the time you are planting. But we have to eat them in a hurry before the heat turns them into goo. Even keeping them in the house where it is cool, they will sprout. Oh well, we'll eat them up before we have any real problems anyway.

 

[MontyJ]

Your plants look great Bay! I haven't even bought my potatoes yet

 

[baymule]

My grand daughter and I dug potatoes last weekend. I got a respectable return considering that the first planting got drowned. We had fun, got real dirty, played with water pistols and stomped stink bugs. I weighed the potatoes from each bed and got a total of 88 pounds.

 

[baymule]

Note to self:

Today, stick spuds in ground before working on netting.

Marshall, did you plant your potatoes and how are they doing?

 

[digitS']

Bay,

That is a great picture .

I am sure that fine haul of wonderful potatoes came with great memories, too.

Steve

 

[Gardening with Rabbits]

What a happy picture and nice potatoes. My purple ones have flowers now.

 

[ninnymary]

She is soooo cute! Looks like she had a lot of fun. Oh, the potatoes are nice too!

Mary