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  • From: "Lynn Wigglesworth" <lynnw1366 AT hotmail.com>
  • To: <homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [Homestead] Potato Question
  • Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2009 07:28:43 -0400

I bought my seed potatoes yesterday (Yukon Gold). Some things I read say to chit them and plant them "as soon as the ground can be worked", but others say that they are sensitive to frost once they are growing. I usually can't get the bed ready until near the last frost anyway (it's usuallly too cold and wet here to work the soil until May), but this year, with this phenomonally nice weather, the bed is prepared already, but we could have frost for another 2 months.

When do you all plant potatoes related to your last frost? And do you put them in hills or trenches? I'm thinking of planting early, but mulching them so the frost won't hurt them.

Lynn Wigglesworth
Tioga Co. PA




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