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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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