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- From: "Tradingpost" <tradingpost AT gilanet.com>
- To: market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org
- Subject: Re: [Market-farming] intensive potatoes
- Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 07:35:51 -0700
How do your Yellow Finns compare to the Yukon Gold? We plan to do both this
year and Yukon Gold is a real crowd pleaser with its thin skin and buttery
taste. And more expensive in stores - if you can find it.
paul, tradingpost AT gilanet.com
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SoilmakersGrowing/
"To forget how to dig the earth and tend the soil is to forget ourselves."
... Gandhi
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On 1/10/2006 at 10:41 AM Elaine Granata wrote:
>I've done three rows for a 36" bed, one foot apart. I "off set" the
>center
>row so that it's not even with the two outside rows. I generally get a
>good
>yield of medium sized potatoes and some large one. The Yellow Finns are
>generally the same medium size, purples vary greatly, and Yukon Gold are
>mostly large. The little ones -- 1" in diaameter or so -- sell well at
>Farmers' Markets and a specialty market I supply. Many of my CSA members
>like the small ones, too, to put whole in stews or roasting whole with
>olive
>oil, rosemary and garlic powder.
>
>Elaine
>Denver
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Goodwill at Homefields Farm" <scottb AT lancastergoodwill.org>
>To: <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
>Sent: Monday, January 09, 2006 7:11 AM
>Subject: [Market-farming] intensive potatoes
>
>
>> how thickly have you grown potatoes and been pleased with the results?
>> Johnny's recommends single rows 36" apart.
>> i am contemplating double or triple rows on beds that are 36 inches
>between
>> the tires.
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[Market-farming] intensive potatoes,
Goodwill at Homefields Farm, 01/09/2006
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Re: [Market-farming] intensive potatoes,
Elaine Granata, 01/10/2006
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Re: [Market-farming] intensive potatoes,
Tradingpost, 01/11/2006
- Re: [Market-farming] intensive potatoes, Elaine Granata, 01/11/2006
- Re: [Market-farming] intensive potatoes, road's end farm, 01/12/2006
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Re: [Market-farming] intensive potatoes,
Tradingpost, 01/11/2006
- <Possible follow-up(s)>
- Re: [Market-farming] intensive potatoes, Wiediger, Alison, 01/09/2006
- Re: [Market-farming] intensive potatoes, Goodwill at Homefields Farm, 01/09/2006
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Re: [Market-farming] intensive potatoes,
SaladG, 01/09/2006
- Re: [Market-farming] intensive potatoes, David Inglis, 01/09/2006
- [Market-farming] potatoes and plastic mulch, Beth Spaugh, 01/09/2006
- Re: [Market-farming] intensive potatoes, Wiediger, Alison, 01/11/2006
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Re: [Market-farming] Intensive Potatoes,
david purpura, 01/12/2006
- Re: [Market-farming] Intensive Potatoes, Jill Bussiere, 01/12/2006
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Re: [Market-farming] intensive potatoes,
Elaine Granata, 01/10/2006
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