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[Robert Walton <waltonrp AT gmail.com>]

That's when they are ready to harvest. I eat the little ones first and then
the bigger ones get stored. I always find those little stolon things you are
writing about. The plants seem to make them right up until they give up the
ghost.
Rob - Va

On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 2:34 PM, Leslie <cayadopi AT yahoo.com> wrote:

> newbie question here.............
>
> I see how when I pick the new potatoes off, that some more little spuds
> start above, higher and higher up the stem.
>
> Now, some of the leafy tops have completely died, and some are 1/4 to 1/2
> dead.
>
> The question is,,,,,,,,,,,,, do the spuds underground keep growing if the
> top part of the plant is dead?
>
> The reason I ask is I just took a shovel and dug up two of the dead looking
> ones (they've been dead for a week).... and to my surprise there were a
> bunch of little potatoes,,,, small but I ate them for lunch and made a whole
> meal,,,, and there were more of those little stolon things, and I could have
> sworn there weren't any left last time I checked these two plants a few
> weeks ago.
>
> Either I didn't look close........... or it leads to my question.  If the
> tops are dead can the little spuds underground keep growing?
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