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[Leslie <cayadopi AT yahoo.com>]

Red cloth placemats, gold and blue cloth napkins, a very colorful silk flower 
arrangement,,,,, completely surrounded and covered up by canning jars, lids, 
screw caps, plastic containers with seeds being collected from various 
flowers planted,,,, 
 
And the chairs have homemade drying screens/racks sitting on them with black, 
white & pinto beans drying (just to make sure) as well as watermelon and 
honey dew and any other seeds to be collected for drying...
 
I think the only time my table will look like a table again is when nothing 
needs to be started indoors or canned, etc...............
 

--- On Mon, 8/3/09, EarthNSky <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net> wrote:



This could actually be a new thread:
What's on your kitchen table??




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Wow congrats !  Those are real beauties !!
 
I'm definitely not getting as many large potatoes per plant, even though I 
can see potential.  
 
Today one of the Red Viking tops died, it was a runt that never grew well.  
And this morning on my walk-about thru the garden, I noticed in the whole 
hilled row that most of the soil arouund the stems were cracking open, a sign 
I've come to recognize that it means the spuds are getting so big as to push 
up and crack the top soil apart.  Poked my fingers down and sure enough found 
taters, so hilled up a bit more soil.
 
I decided to see just what the dead plant produced (I haven't been plucking 
the new potatoes in the red garden patch).  Two really huge (about 4 1/2 " 
diameter) perfect fairly round potatoes.  There were 8 other little spuds but 
basically trash.
 
A few of the plants are starting to get a tad brown, but most of the 50 foot 
row is either looking great or still flowering somehow.  Oh, weird thing, 
some of the flowers have produced a little "fruit".  They can't possibly be 
seeds can they?  LOL.
 
Anyway.  The soil is sand, with lots of horse manure worked in.  Irrigated 
daily via drip irrigation.  No other fertilizer or anything at all except 
weed pulling.  They were planted 8" deep in a trench, and I hilled a little 
at a time until the plants stopped getting taller.  They really are only 
about knee high, plus the 8" that is in the trench.
 
They were planted very late for here, ground temps were hot, and for most of 
the time during plant growth we had 95-110 degree blistering hot days,,, who 
knows how hot the soil was.... burning hot according to an attempt at bare 
feet....
 
I hilled the soil much higher than the other garden with the white potatoes.  
And if today's result is an indication, maybe one secret in the desert is 
keeping a lot of sand between the potatoes and the sun.  Either that or the 
Purple Vikings just like it hotter than the Kennebecs.  
 
 
 
 
 
James wrote:
 

Holy Idaho, Batman!

I dug up only one plant in each of two rows and here is a picture of the 
potatoes I got from those two plants:

www.geocities.com/eleutheroi/spuds.jpg

That's a 14" serving platter the spuds are on, nine pounds of potatoes from 
two hills.

James

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Take this with a grain of salt...... since I know nothing as a first year 
attempt to be a gardener...
 
But I just stuck a few potatoes (russets or small idahos probably) from the 
grocery store which had been in mom's fridge for a few months and had some 
eyes sprouting (I know I know, not supposed to do this but,,,, I stuck them 
in the ground about 3 wks ago, started watering them,,,,,and whallah, I have 
more potato plants growing.  They are about 1 foot tall or so already (and I 
couldn't have planted at a worse time heat-wise....)
 

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Okay we determined that the potatoes are best left in the soil until fall.
My question is at what point are they going to start to grow.
I think it was September last year when I dug my very poor potatoes
(drought) and some of them were starting to grow.

If I wanted to plant a few fall potatoes, what would I need to do to the
potatoes to make them want to grow? Chill them?

Rob - Va
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Leslie; I do that all the time (seed potato is expensive, so I only buy
unusual types that I can't get in the store). If I have potatoes sprout, I
stick them in some little unused space in the garden. I do it all through
spring and summer...if there isn't enough time for full-grown potatoes, I
might just get a few new potatoes. They don't get as much attention or
hilling from me as the regular potato bed, but I get a few potatoes out of
what most poeple would throw away. If I don't dig them, they often
overwinter and grow the next spring.

I saw a show about Victorian gardening where they alway had pots of potatoes
growing in the heated glasshouses so the 'big house' always had new
potatoes...just knock them out of the pot, send them up to the kitchen, and
start a new plant in the pot. My greenhouse isn't heated, but I could still
stick my sprouting potatoes in pots in the winter and have new potatoes at
odd times of the year.

Lynn Wigglesworth
Tioga Co. PA.
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Take this with a grain of salt...... since I know nothing as a first year
attempt to be a gardener...

But I just stuck a few potatoes (russets or small idahos probably) from the
grocery store which had been in mom's fridge for a few months and had some
eyes sprouting (I know I know, not supposed to do this but,,,, I stuck them
in the ground about 3 wks ago, started watering them,,,,,and whallah, I have
more potato plants growing. They are about 1 foot tall or so already (and I
couldn't have planted at a worse time heat-wise....)


--- On Mon, 8/3/09, Robert Walton <waltonrp AT gmail.com> wrote:




Okay we determined that the potatoes are best left in the soil until fall.
My question is at what point are they going to start to grow.
I think it was September last year when I dug my very poor potatoes
(drought) and some of them were starting to grow.

If I wanted to plant a few fall potatoes, what would I need to do to the
potatoes to make them want to grow? Chill them?

Rob - Va
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