With a bit of help from my 15 year old son, I harvested a nice box full of potatoes on Saturday. I suppose if we were a bit more careful we wouldn't have pierced so many of them with the digging fork. We did our best.

I have mostly white fingerling potatoes, but also some big Russets and reds. They are delicious now - crisp new potatoes. I'll hang these in a paper bag from the rafters in the basement. I think they will last us a few months. A good harvest. Next year, I'd like to grow a few more large Russets. They are delicious.

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I planted potatoes in black nursery pots some time ago...Yukon Gold, Fingerling and Colorado Rose. I've got four pots plus some plants in the ground due to buying too many seed potatoes. The pots haven't all looked that great and yesterday I decided to plant some of my basil starts in the one that looked least like anything was growing there. I thought I should fluff up the soil and reuse it since it seemed fairly unused. Look what I found! A nice handful of fingerlings! Now I'm hoping for even better results in the pots that actually look like there are plants growing in them. I am so excited! I've never grown potatoes before but it's been a snap so far...now I just need to be patient and not decide to reuse any of the other pots until the potatoes are done!

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Potatoes for this summer season are being container grown given the continuing water shortages. Anya a salad potato which has been derived by crossing Pink fir apple and Desiree is my chosen variety. It is a waxy potato with a mild and pleasant nutty taste the plants supposedly give a reasonably high yield of elongated tubers. 

I chitted my Anya tubers before planting to give them a head start.

 

The photograph shows the sprouts having appeared on the tubers. As the shoots grow I will top up the container with composted materials to earth up the young plants. Once the plants have bloomed I will wait for the flowers to fall before harvesting the crop. Although this variety is resistant to many common diseases it is easily damaged and is a little prone to greening.

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Posted by Colin & Carol Reblogged by Old Roses to potatoes on 2008-05-24, 06:45:24

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I have a lot of potatoes that I've been saving. They are very anxious to get into the ground. All are sending out sprouts. All are supermarket spuds. I thought the mail order seed potatoes were too expensive. Last year supermarket my potatoes grew great.

My collection includes a nice Idaho baker, a Yukon Gold, a whole bag of mixed fingerlings (a mix of La Ratte, Russian Banana, French and Rose Finn), and a white sweet potato.

My plan is that Friday is potato planting day. This will be my first crop planted at my community plot! Exciting.

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Posted by kathy Reblogged by Old Roses to potatoes on 2008-04-24, 06:09:59

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The big mess that's in this picture is going to turn into a big bucket of blue potatoes. Last year, I picked up a pound of blue seed potatoes and planted them not expecting much. But at the end of the season, I had about 30 pounds of them. I like when a vegetable under promises and over delivers. . . .

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Posted by Anthony Reblogged by Old Roses to potatoes on 2008-04-14, 18:19:23

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What are the best ways to preserve and store potatoes during the winter? I stored them in the basement on a rack, but they all sprouted a few months later. (answer).

From The Old Farmer's Almanac.

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Posted by The Old Farmer's Almanac Reblogged by Old Roses to potatoes on 2008-03-14, 00:31:10

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This year I'm experimenting with getting more seed potatoes from a bag of tubers by cutting in half a couple of  tubers of each variety that I'm growing (Home Guard, Charlotte and Cara). I'm aiming to get decent sprouts on each half and will let the wound heal and then plant out as normal. I'll mark the row and see how they do compared to the tubers I'm planting whole. . . .

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Posted by John Curtin Reblogged by Old Roses to potatoes on 2008-02-28, 06:05:44

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I was checking out our pantry I noticed some of our potatoes were starting to sprout. I took this as a great opportunity to have a little activity with the my daughters. We started by taking a look at the sprouts and had a little discussion about how potatoes grow underground and this one potato will grow into many more potatoes. We then cut an egg carton in half and set the sprouting potatoes by the window to sprout (chitting) a little more and printed out some activity pages from the Washington State Potato Commission.

After a few days of basking in the sun we planted our potatoes in our garden and hopefully in a couple weeks we will see some plants coming out of the ground.

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Posted by The Cheap Vegetable Gardener Reblogged by Old Roses to children, potatoes on 2008-02-27, 06:05:53

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Last update that is...I've finally worked my way around my garden beds with update photos. After  I've done this, I'll let you know how I'm going getting my brassicas in for winter. There was that small issue about killing off the melons. Anyway, here's the potato bed.

There appears to be a gap half way down the bed and that would be because there IS a gap half way down the bed. But its more complicated than that. The first half of the bed was planted before the garden open day (but still very late for me) - late October maybe. I usually try and get potatoes under straw in late August, early September. Anyway, after the garden open day - so I'm talking early December (!) I put in the other half the potato bed. Really, when I did that I was just experimenting. I don't even know if all is well under that growth at the back, and whether or not they'll finish growing in time for harvest. It seemed like it was worth a try because I had this half a bed allocated to potatoes - I just hadn't got around planting. So, we'll see. Certainly the potatoes at the front of the bed - just after the stawberry plants - look normal. Bulky, lush, green growth on top that covers the bed whereas the ones at the back are smaller and haven't all managed to grow.

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My husband brought home a nice bag of fingerling potatoes from our local warehouse store yesterday. A mix of La Ratte, Russian Banana, French and Rose Finn (though I don't know which are which). Since these were varieties I was planning to mail order as seed potatoes, I immediately pulled out a bunch. I'll save these for planting instead of ordering and paying for shipping costs. Last year I had very good luck with planting supermarket potatoes. Why not?

I also noticed I had a Yukon Gold that was beginning to sprout, so I added this to the collection that I put in a bag with airflow and hung in a cold dark area of the basement. I'll look for a few more varieties to add to my collection in the next few months. (Potato planting time is April 10-15.) I'm looking forward to a nice potato patch this year in my new community garden plot.

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Posted by carletongardener Reblogged by Old Roses to potatoes on 2008-01-21, 18:27:08

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I'd intended waiting until the New Year to taste the Golden Wonder potatoes - they improve with storage so I've read - but my wife perpared a helping last night. They are so different to my waxy favourite, Charlotte.

Loads of starch and very floury, they crisp up really well when roasted and there's a nice contrast between the crust and the floury inside. I can imagine that they fry well, soaking up a nice bit of fat in the process. This helping was cooked peeled, next time I'll leave the skin on to see if it makes any difference.

I was won over by their deep earthy taste, quite sweet almost, and I'll sow at least one row of these next year.

Let's see how they improve in store.

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Posted by John Curtin Reblogged by Old Roses to potatoes on 2007-10-30, 06:39:59

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A day during the past week I was left to fend for myself. Having got a few beers, I took to the garden to see what could be dinner. It was an opportune time to give the sweet potatoes a test. Regrettably, my garden nemesis had the same idea, only a few months previous and. . .

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Posted by Reblogged by Old Roses to pests, potatoes on 2007-10-27, 00:45:53

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Patrick of Bifurcated Carrots posted recently on his harvest of Mr Little's Yetholm Gypsy Potato and it reminded me that I put a reasonable crop of Golden Wonder in store. Grown from tubers given to me by an allotment neighbour...

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Posted by John Curtin Reblogged by Old Roses to potatoes on 2007-10-18, 06:55:17

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Posted by Leslie Reblogged by Old Roses to harvest, potatoes on 2007-10-18, 06:45:10

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Rebsie of Daughter of the Soil sent me a couple of tubers of this potato which I grew this year in a pot on my roof.  What you see in the picture is my entire harvest!  9 potatoes in total, about 500g or a pound.  All of the other potatoes I grew this year did [...]

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Posted by Patrick Reblogged by Old Roses to potatoes on 2007-10-11, 18:16:47

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I planted potatoes in my garden and had trouble determining the best time to harvest them. (answer).

From The Old Farmer's Almanac.

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Posted by The Old Farmer's Almanac Reblogged by Old Roses to potatoes on 2007-10-05, 00:43:43

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I planted sweet potato slips back at the beginning of May. I got the slips from my good gardening buddy Bill. Before I planted them, I spread a few wheelbarrow-fulls of trash wood mulch from the dump. . . .

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Posted by Central FLA Gardener Reblogged by Old Roses to potatoes on 2007-09-10, 05:50:27

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Do you know what this is? If you have a good memory you may remember some of my old posts where I mentioned the things I was planting this season.

First person to guess correctly wins...

...the respect of the garden blogging community.

Sorry but that's the best prize I can offer from my rinky dink garden blog. :)

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Posted by Anthony Reblogged by Old Roses to potatoes on 2007-08-23, 06:25:10

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I finally put the Lumper potatoes out of their misery yesterday. The haulm never looked strong and all the leaf had keeled over in the last week.

There was no sign of blight but I couldn't really think that this straggly foliage which was slowly decaying was going to add anything to the harvest. . . .

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Posted by John Curtin Reblogged by Old Roses to potatoes on 2007-08-18, 06:19:16

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It is a hot day here in Ky so I made a big pot of New Potatoes with Fresh Mint Dressing. Why don't you give it a try tonight. . . .

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Posted by Herbs and Me Reblogged by Old Roses to potatoes, recipes on 2007-08-16, 18:27:12

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Both the spinach and beetroot have started to emerge. Sadly, the ailing seed potatoes had already started to decompose by the time I finished preparing their bed. I got a kilo of replacements from nearby Land Science. They are called 出島 (デジマ or deshima). The name is taken from Dejima an artificial island in Nagasaki. . .

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Eat potatoes.

They're a variety called Cranberry Red, or at least that's what they are called by Territorial Seed. There is some controversy. Oh, and I also dug up a couple of the russet ones (forgot the name), but I was more interested in the pink ones. We've been buying the pink ones or similar for several years at the Arlington Farmer's Market, and we liked them to the point of being disappointed when they weren't available. So they were one of the first things on my list when deciding what to grow in the new central Virginia vegetable garden. . . .

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Posted by Entangled Reblogged by Old Roses to potatoes on 2007-08-03, 00:53:56

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We had gorgeous weather here on Saturday afternoon: not too hot nor too humid. I noticed the sky was cast in a deeper shade of blue for a change, not the pale haze of suffocating humidity that typically hangs over our city in July. For the first time in weeks, I felt comfortable enough to stay out and putter in the garden for a while, rather than just rushing about to do the necessary survival-mode watering and weeding. It was very pleasant. . . .

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Posted by Christa Reblogged by Old Roses to potatoes, tomatoes on 2007-07-25, 00:33:23

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Growing potatoes requires faith. All of gardening requires an optimistic attitude, but things that mature underground - unseen - are either wonderful surprises or major disappointments. Here are...

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You can see better images of this potato, Mr Little's Yetholm Gypsy on Rebsie's site which really shows off the blue/purple pigment to the skin along with the creamy white mottling. They have an appealing Russian doll look to them.

Alan Romans relates in The Potato Book that the Little family of Yetholm obtained tubers of this variety at the first Yetholm Fair (a gypsy fair) after WWII and kept the line going. . . .

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Posted by John Curtin Reblogged by Old Roses to potatoes on 2007-07-20, 06:11:39

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Have you ever heard of growing potatoes in tires? You fill a tire full of garden soil and plant a few potatoes. After the plants get to be about two feet tall, you add another tire on top of the first one and fill more compost or soil around the potato plants up to the top of that tire. When the potato growth gets taller again, you add another tire and more dirt. I've seen people get up to five tires high! The potato plant amazingly makes more tubers along what was originally the above ground part of the plant. . . .

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Posted by Marc Reblogged by Old Roses to potatoes on 2007-07-02, 18:18:09

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A busy, busy weekend with no time to photograph but I did harvest the first of my heritage potato varieties, Edzell Blue.

Though still in flower (Edzell is a second early) each plant yielded a decent crop of 'new potato' sized tubers, all in good health with a strong blue skin colour. . .

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Posted by John Curtin Reblogged by Old Roses to potatoes on 2007-06-27, 06:45:35

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So this year I decided NOT to plant potatoes ... and what happened? I got potatoes anyway. It sure LOOKS like I planted them doesn't it. I'm naming this bed after the Tennessee Vols. . . .

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Posted by Leslie Reblogged by Old Roses to books, potatoes on 2007-06-18, 18:48:30

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A couple of weeks ago, I planted potatoes for the first time by sticking 15 store bought potatoes about 4 inches down in the ground. Many sprouted nicely. But then yesterday I read that potatoes should be planted deep and gradually covered over with dirt as they grow. So, I dug up my potatoes and replanted them 8 inches down using the trench method. . .

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Posted by carletongardener Reblogged by Old Roses to potatoes on 2007-06-13, 06:15:03

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I've heard that planting potatoes in an old tire filled with soil and then adding soil and another tire as the plant gets bigger is a good way to maximize productivity of your plants and makes them easy to dig out ( which sounds great to me since I live in Hawai'i and have very little soil in the yard)

has any one tried this? is it safe? it seems like using old tires for container planting might lead to some wierd kind of leaching into the soil...but if not it sounds like a great way to re

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The first flowers appeared on the second early Charlotte potatoes yesterday.

So I expect I'll be harvesting some small tubers in two to three weeks time.

Next year I think I'll try covering the crop with horticultural fleece to see if I can get an earlier harvest - maybe I could rig up a polytunnel of sorts.

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Posted by John Curtin Reblogged by Old Roses to potatoes on 2007-06-02, 07:02:31

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Growing potatoes requires faith. All of gardening requires an optimistic attitude, but things that mature underground - unseen - are either wonderful surprises or major disappointments. Here are...

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Sprouted camotes

Whoops! I guess the camotes (sweet potatoes) are past their prime. I think I'll just plant them and see what happens. I wish I could find a really good variety of sweet potato to plant. The only variety I've found here in La Ceiba are yellow inside, not very flavorful, and the texture is often a bit stringy. . .

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Posted by La Gringa Reblogged by Old Roses to potatoes on 2007-05-28, 01:06:24

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At planting time, there are two things you can do that will really help your potatoes do well. . . .

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Posted by Hilary Reblogged by Old Roses to potatoes on 2007-04-30, 00:52:35

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I think this is a potato plant. It's the first one to emerge from the ground, after a topsy-turvy planting of seed potatoes 4 weeks ago. It looks promising, doesn't it?

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