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  • From: Road's End Farm <organic87 AT frontiernet.net>
  • To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] High Yield crop recommendations
  • Date: Mon, 4 Jan 2010 13:32:24 -0500


On Jan 4, 2010, at 1:12 PM, E C GRANATA wrote:

<x-tad-smaller>I've raised Yukon Golds for several years and the yield is lways low, though the potatoes are lovely.  </x-tad-smaller>

Yukon Gold is notoriously fussy. It does produce well in some locations, but produces little or nothing on other farms within the same general area, even if those farms get a great yield from other varieties -- it seems to not be a climate problem, maybe it only does well in very specific soils.

-- Rivka; Finger Lakes NY, Zone 5 mostly
Fresh-market organic produce, small scale



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