Have you started planting yours?
Simple garden techniques described in details so anyone can easily follow through on their end while sharing ideas and pictures on how the garden is progressing through out the year.
Preping potatoes for planting
Yes, it is that time of the year again - time to plant potatoes outside! Actually I'm over a month behind on this task thanks to Mother Nature not cooperating with weather. This year I ordered additional potatoes to add to my garden: German Butterball, Kenebec and Gold Rush. I already had Yukon Gold, Purple, French Fingerlings and regular white and I'm still deciding if I want to plant any rose/red potatoes as I'm not a big fan, but my husband really likes them. Here's a short video of my cut up new varieties as well as some of the overwintered and ready to grow plants.
I've had them sitting in my warm laundry room where they get full light to really get them growing fast. You can clearly see difference between newcomers and the ones from last year that I did not keep it the cold cellar and they are really overgrown. But it's fine, they'll be producing just as well as new varieties.
Have you started planting yours?
Have you started planting yours?
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It was fun to hear your voice! I can only grow a few potatoes and went to get some seedlings today but they won't be in till Monday. Late because of the weather so I hope to get them planted maybe next Friday! Nancy
ReplyDeleteBetter late than never! And it's been too cold for them to be planted before anyway, most local farms won't get them in till first week of May.
DeleteI'm behind too. I have a closet full of sprouting potatoes but no time to prepare the potato bed! Our line of varieties is much like yours. We use Fedco moose tubers. Who do you order from?
ReplyDeleteSome of new ones like German Butterball and Kenebec I got from Territorial Seed, some I got in past from Jung, fingerlings were given to me 2 yrs ago by a local CSA farmer where I help once in a while so I stored them and grew each year.
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