I purchased a bunch of potatoes from the Natural Gardener again this year. In addition to the red potatoes and ratte potatoes that I planted last year, I also picked up some Yukon Gold. I should have counted before I put them in, but I am guessing I had almost twenty different "parts". For the bigger potatoes, I cut them into golf ball sized portions which had at least two eyes.
In digging the ground to put the potatoes in, I ran across a bunch of potatoes from last year. They came up in the fall, and then died in the freeze. They are probably not good for anything, but I threw them on top of the other potatoes. We'll see what comes up. A couple of things I did different from last year. I forgot to water the potatoes 2 days before I planted them. We had a decent rain earlier this week, but the soil may be too dry. I also mixed up the varieties within the bed. Not for any good reason, but I was sort of short on space.
A few of the potatoes were budding, but most were not. I'm not feeling overly confident this year... but we'll see.
No comments:
Post a Comment